Cost-Containment

Researchers suggest employers weigh any potential savings of a pharmacy benefits carve-out against increases in medical spending.

Claims around cancer diagnoses remain a top concern for stop-loss insurers.

To remain competitive, brokers and consultants need to embrace technology as more than an automation tool used monthly, quarterly, or even yearly. Instead, they need to consider how technology like real-time analytics can pave the way for strategic, year-round, personalized and robust benefits administration.

Innovating the benefits model requires consumer empowerment to make intelligent health care decisions and advisors armed with specialty knowledge and data to impart to their clients.

The bill would provide substantive reforms to support and encourage greater participation by health care providers in ACOS, particularly in rural communities.

As many as one million Americans travel abroad for medical services each year, and some experts say the annual rate of growth is as much as 20%.