3-minute read THE CHALLENGE: “Mark Lamb ought to be dead.” That was the opening sentence in the 2022 “White Mountain Independent” article on Mark’s life-threatening health scare and […]
3-minute read The Consolidated Appropriations Act imposed a string of new requirements on group health plans, including new reporting requirements and limitations on surprise billing and balance billing. […]
4-minute read More government audits and ramped up enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. That’s what we can expect from the U.S. Department of […]
4-minute read The new brokerage compensation transparency rules in the Consolidated Appropriations Act have gotten far less attention than they deserve. But the same can be said about […]
The challenge: One of the truest measures of the effectiveness of an employer health insurance plan is a simple one: the number of employees who enroll. The more, […]
Average annual premiums for an employer-sponsored family health plan climbed to $22,221 in 2021, up 4% from the previous year, and no matter how you slice and dice […]
5-minute read Pharmacy benefits management companies. The right ones may be one of your best defenses against employer medical costs that, according to the latest annual PricewaterhouseCoopers report, […]
Health care costs for a family of four dropped last year for the first time in nearly 20 years. But there isn’t much to cheer about that; it […]
The labor market took a turn toward uncertainty in April, raising questions about just how robust the recovery might be. We’re not economists but our money’s on growth, […]