Health plans, medical practices and some Medicaid programs are increasingly offering financial incentives to motivate Medicaid patients to engage in more preventive care and make healthier lifestyle choices.
For the benefits and HR industry, more reliance on technology, equals more reliance on brokers to help employers make their way in an ever more complex world.
Broker-dealers will have to step up their efforts as millennial advisors use technology, online meetings, and financial planning tools to reach out to their clients.
According to a study from Quest Diagnostics, the use of meth among American workers has been rising since 2012, after it plateaued between 20082012, and positive drug tests for meth have increased 64 percent since 2012.
None other than Vanguard founder Jack Bogle is raising the prospect that too much money is in too few hands, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Corp. together owning significant stakes in the biggest U.S. companies.
The flexibility of HSAs makes them appealing for a wide range of users, but that same flexibility can make explaining these accounts a challenge. No two people have identical health benefit needs, and each employee will use an HSA differently.
With as much as $30 trillion in wealth estimated to transfer from baby boomers to millennials over the next few decades, traditional broker-dealers such as Morgan Stanley want to engage with the next generation.
U.S. patents on key components for some important HIV therapies are poised to expire starting in December and one foreign manufacturer is gearing up to cash in.