Consumer Driven Health Care

Enrollment for consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) remains low, but is slowly rising.

More employers are taking steps to encourage medication compliance as part of a growing focus on wellness initiatives designed to manage benefits costs.

The average per-employee cost of health benefits rose 5.5 percent in 2009, the lowest annual increase in a decade, according to new findings from Mercer.

The United States is the leader in not offering paid time off for just about everything.

Controlling benefits-related costs will be critical for most companies over the next five years, according to a new report from the Prudential Insurance Company of America.

Financial distress limits workers' productivity.

Employees are bringing their financial issues to work, and it's affecting their employer's bottom line.

Employer contributions in consumer-driven health plans have shifted recently, resulting in decreased contributions for workers with employee-only coverage and increased contributions for those with family coverage.