Practice Management

Competitive benefits key to employers' health care strategy.

More than 60 percent of employers are evaluating changes to the long-term medical benefits for retirees in the next 1-2 years.

Almost 1 million employers, or 19 percent, plan to extend health care coverage to their employees' adult children before they're required to do so next year, according to new research from Hewitt Associates.

Most U.S. companies concede in a new survey that it's going to take more than health care reform legislation to curb rising health care costs, and that the workplace should play a pivotal role in encouraging healthy behaviors.

80 percent of brokers say voluntary benefits are "very important" to the packages they offer employers; 17 percent said they were "somewhat important."

Unless health care costs can be mitigated, more than 60 percent of large employers' health plans will be affected by a federal excise tax that will go into effect in 2018, according to new analysis from benefit consultant Towers Watson.