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New Recipe for Health Care Purchasing Blends Savings and Quality

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

04 Jun 2018

What’s the best recipe for making sure your plan participants are receiving high-value health care? The old cookbook called for health plan sponsors to focus on getting the cheapest health care possible and using their leverage to convince providers to offer a […]

Employee Benefits Health Care Prescription Drugs Talking Benefits Podcast

The Costly and Complicated World of Specialty Drugs

Anne Patterson

25 May 201808 Aug 2018

Each month, the International Foundation’s three resident benefits nerdthusiasts Julie Stich, Kelli Kolsrud and Justin Held, meet to discuss the top stories in retirement and health care, the latest benefits hot topics, and take a deeper dive into a trending benefits topic. This […]

Disease Management Employee Benefits Health Care

The Second Most Expensive Health Condition: Considerations for Your Plan

Justin Held, CEBS

22 May 201822 May 2018

Readers are aware of the significant toll that cancer has on our society. We have all been touched on a personal level by cancer’s reach. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer is the second leading cause of deaths […]

Canada Employee Benefits Health Care Legislative

From HWTs to ELHTs: The End of Health and Welfare Trusts?

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

19 Apr 2018

The 2018 Canadian federal budget announced that health and welfare trusts (HWTs)—the tax vehicle under which most benefit trusts currently operate—are being phased out by the end of 2020. Still to come from the government are transitional administrative guidance for winding up […]

Employee Benefits Health Care Insurance

Coordinating Employer Health Plans With Medicare

Anne Newhouse, CEBS

12 Apr 201809 Aug 2018

You’re a benefits professional—You know your benefits program like the back of your hand. But now, as employees are getting close to the age of 65, they’re starting to ask questions about Medicare, and you’re not always prepared to answer. Here are three […]

Employee Benefits Health Care Insurance

Four Key Ingredients to High-Value Health Care

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

06 Apr 2018

Employee Benefits Health Care Wellness

Four Health Care Trends Straight From the Experts

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

03 Apr 201803 Apr 2018

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Zirui Song, M.D., Ph.D., and Jeffrey Levin-Scherz, M.D, M.B.A., F.A.C.P., faculty advisors for Evidence, Insight and Strategy for Optimizing Health Benefits, a new International Foundation educational program taught by Harvard Medical School faculty. We […]

Employee Benefits Health Care Wellness

Health Risk Assessment Time! Putting the YAY into your HRA

Anne Patterson

19 Mar 201809 Aug 2018

Gone are the days of dial-up Internet (that sound of AOL connecting still haunts my dreams), floppy disks and boom boxes. Technology has come a long way over the past few decades, so far that a tiny finger prick can provide a […]

Employee Benefits Health Care Insurance

Long-Term Care Insurance—Ripped From the Headlines

Justin Held, CEBS

14 Mar 201814 Mar 2018

Long-term care insurance has long been a staple of employee benefit offerings. While not typically a “headline-grabbing” benefit, these plans have received increased attention. What is a long-term care insurance plan? How commonly are these plans offered? Why is this topic trending […]

Behavioral Decision Making Employee Benefits Health Care National Employee Benefits Day Retirement

Celebrate National Employee Benefits Day #NEBD on April 2

Staff

09 Mar 201809 Mar 2018

Despite your employees’ best intentions—and your carefully crafted benefit offerings—are your plan participants continuing to make irrational decisions? Well, cue the Twilight Zone music, because a relatively new area of research called behavioral decision making has found that we, as humans, share […]