Benefits

Like many employers, hospitals are also feeling the effects of new health care benefit rules.

Employers are taking action to delay the ACA excise tax.

“Companies need to communicate clearly, aggressively and creatively about what they're offering and how the programs can enhance their employees' well-being,” says Brodeur Partners CEO Andrea Coville.

If deals recently announced by major carriers go through, plan sponsors can expect innovation that will drive down health care costs, Aon Hewitt expects.

Software provider SAS spent nearly $600 less in claims per primary care patient over a three-year study period.

The changes are intended to encourage federal employees to leave their balances in the TSP after they leave federal service.

Better technology and increased availability of data offer employers a better chance of reducing health plan costs.

More than half of respondents to a survey said it is up to employers to educate employees about HSAs, FSAs and HRAs.

The combined trust fund reserves are still growing and will continue to do so through 2019, the annual Trustees Report says.

The number of employers expressing concern about health care law affecting their business is about half what it was three years ago.

Today, 17 million policyholders and dependents are covered in 13.8 million accounts.

Participants in health savings accounts contributed a median of $700 a year.

Most employers that offer domestic partner benefits to both same-sex and opposite-sex partners say they are not considering dropping it.

Firms surveyed indicated they only provided domestic partner benefits because same-gender couples previously couldn’t marry, but there are other reasons to continue offering the benefits.

More than three-quarters of health benefit plan sponsors surveyed said the actions of their peers influence their health care strategies.

Multiemployer health plan sponsors could consider more options for managing costs, a study finds.

Mercer survey finds employers reacting positively to the SCOTUS verdict in King v. Burwell.

“Insurance is where you can really provide a lot more benefit to employees,” says Stephen Locko with ISN Network.

The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing titled “Work in Retirement: Career Reinventions and the New Retirement Workscape.”

A report reveals the top 10 catastrophic claim conditions and highest-cost stop-loss claims, as well as emerging trends and considerations for employers with self-funded health benefits.