Sixty percent of employers pay $2.5 million annually in vendor management costs.

Drugmakers are offering several new options to enable employers afford to provide high-demand – and high-cost – weight-loss medications to workers.

Paid leave policies are intended to ease this burden by enabling workers to take time off to care for their children and other family members.

Health care has added a monthly average of 29,000 jobs over the past 12 months.

"In most presidential and midterm election year polling since 1992, health care ranked among voters' top concerns, with the economy taking the top spot in most elections," according to a new KFF report.

Thirty years in the business has taught Al Schiebel that while data and humor build the relationship, it's his 'people-first' conviction and grit that turn complex benefits into client peace of mind.

Out-of-pocket spending is rising faster than wages and inflation, driven in large part by a 65% increase in high-deductible health plan enrollment over the past decade.

"I don't think people realize how much health care costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire," he wrote in a social media post.