3-minute read By Jason Andrade Few benefits professionals I’ve ever met grew up wanting to become employee health plan fiduciaries. Yet that’s exactly where they find themselves, thanks
Employers’ Do or Die: The Fiduciary Duty in Managing Health Plans Read More »
4-minute read There’s good and bad news in the latest Gallup report on how things are going in the workplace. It’s a nearly 100-page report with lots of
8-minute read After the past couple of years, we’re all much too familiar with inflation. Cars, clothing, milk, and bread. Everything’s costing more. Yet, when it comes to
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4-minute read Family benefits policies are gaining significant importance, according to a survey conducted by the Maven Clinic, an organization specializing in family planning that collaborates with businesses
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6-minute read Pharmacy Benefits Managers are once again at the center of a heated debate in the U.S. Congress, as lawmakers consider changes to the rules governing these
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4-minute read Tens of thousands of employers have done it, likely saving billions of dollars in the process. We’re talking about going the self-insurance route for their group
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3-minute read THE CHALLENGE: Medical claims snafus are always a nuisance. Sometimes, however, they can end up costing everyone plenty. Such was the situation facing one of our
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4-minute read Chronic illnesses are killing any hope of reigning in ever-higher health care and insurance costs. While smoking rates in the U.S. have fallen in recent years,
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3-minute read It’s a staggering and sad reality: cancer patients today are more worried about the cost of their cancer care than dying from the disease. They needn’t
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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
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