Health Care

Celebrate National Employee Benefits Day #NEBD on April 2

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 […]

When Opioid Addiction Shows Up at Work

When Opioid Addiction Shows Up at Work

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS
 

When his teenaged daughter came home with an opioid prescription after having her wisdom teeth removed, Randall Kratz challenged her doctor. Kratz, senior account manager for FEI Behavioral Health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had worked as a substance abuse counselor and knew about […]