Cost-Containment

Despite attempts to close the gender-based pay divide, it likely will be the mid-21st century before its eliminated.

A growing number of employers plan to drop pharmacy benefits to their Medicare-eligible retirees.

Employers are getting smarter about managing health care costs and doing something about it.

Federal employees eligible for retirement may soon be able to extend their careers through part-time work, and receive half of their accrued benefits while working.

Researchers find that only 43.5 percent of the clinicians they surveyed had adopted electronic health records systems.

Just under two-thirds of companies reported that annual incentive payouts for 2012 performance exceeded the pay-for-performance goals that were set.

An Ohio State University researcher finds smoking employees cost their employers an average of $5,816 more each year than do non-smoking workers.

Carriers are promoting the idea of renewing ahead of the law.