Employer-Paid

Effective communication ensures team members understand and appreciate the value of their benefits.

Many employers still want to keep the employees they have, but cash is tight.

Rep. Tim Walberg is also backing health care price transparency bills.

Various pieces of health care transparency legislation have identified areas requiring employers to meet their fiduciary responsibilities, such as designing an evaluation process for selecting vendors to deploy their health and welfare benefits strategy.

The survey recommends organizations go beyond mere compliance and focus on meeting expectations for fairness, openness, and accountability.

At one large self-funded plan, provider shortages pushed more than 37% of the patients to get their behavioral health care out-of-network.

The company uses public data sets, not secret information, to create out-of-network reimbursement recommendations, according to a new court filing.

Medicare has announced 15 new drugs up for price negotiations, set to begin in the next several months with top drugmakers, including Pfizer, Novo Nordisk and GlaxoSmithKline.