The year 2010 may be rapidly winding down, but the accounting of health care costs continues. This is especially true in the wake of the passage of health … Read more
How a Prevention Plan Can Reduce Risks for You AND Your Employees
U.S. Preventive Medicine was part of our Employer panel at October’s Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, a wonderful event that showcases the latest in … Read more
Do Your Employees Really Need a Smart Phone Health App?
I need a health app, so said a client. Why? I asked. Some employees are asking for them, the client said. Mobile health applications are the new sexy. … Read more
Mercer Survey: Only 6% of Employers Plan to Stop Providing Health Care
Get ready for the jockeying over health care insurance plans to begin. A new study from consulting giant Mercer asked the question, “How likely is it … Read more
Survey: 90% Feel Their Benefits are Important, But 36% Fear Losing Their Job
If there’s one good thing that’s come from all the turmoil and stress caused during the last few years of economic downturn, it’s this – people are much … Read more
Four Signs To Help Encourage Employee Wellness
There’s no doubt that we have a lot of unhealthy people in the U.S. workforce — and more set to enter it at some point. Disease management, acute risk and … Read more
Health Savings Accounts: Not Just for Health, But for Wealth, too
Can the Health Savings Account double as a retirement account? In some ways it can and no one is talking about it. Why? We tend to look at things from our … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Bad Bosses, Dissing Federal Workers, and 85,000 Applicants
Anytime you get into a listing of the “best of” or “the worst of,” you know that the list is going to be highly subjective, frequently shortsighted, and … Read more
Beyond Use it or Lose it: Why FSAs Save Money and Make Good Sense
For years employers have been pushing the word “consumerism” into benefits strategy and trying to educate people about what it is. Unfortunately, too much … Read more
What’s The True Cost of Health Care Reform?
I was able to catch part of the recent webinar put on by the Corporate Executive Board’s Corporate Leadership Council on Benefits (that’s a … Read more