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Strategies for Controlling Prescription Drug Costs

Justin Held, CEBS

15 Oct 201810 Oct 2018

Benefits practitioners have grown accustomed to headlines addressing escalating prescription drug costs. A recently released congressional report stated that the prices of commonly prescribed brand-name drugs have risen at a rate of nearly ten times the annual rate of inflation over the […]

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Employee Benefits Details to Consider When Disaster Planning

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

11 Oct 201810 Oct 2018

From hurricanes and tornadoes to wildfires and volcanic eruptions, natural disasters have affected millions of people in the United States this year. When people are dealing with the destruction of their homes and communities, they don’t want to have to worry about […]

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Happy and Healthy World Mental Health Day!

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10 Oct 201810 Oct 2018

October 10 is World Mental Health Day. Before you run to your local card store—This is NOT one of the holidays where you need to send a card and chocolate, but you can! Recently I wrapped up the International Foundation Mental Health and […]

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How to Measure Financial Education ROI

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09 Oct 201827 Feb 2019

Providing financial education to workers isn’t free: it requires planning and resources and requires participants to step away from their work. How can you tell if it is working? In the recent International Foundation report Financial Education for Today’s Workforce: 2018 Survey […]

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Top 10 Mental Health Conditions Employers Are Covering

Anne Patterson

04 Oct 2018

Organizations across the U.S. and Canada are reporting a rise in mental health and substance abuse issues among workers. It’s a continuous challenge for employers to measure the prevalence of mental health and substance abuse, but by providing a range of preventive […]

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New Twist to Student Loan Repayment Benefits: Linking to a 401(k)

Jenny Gartman, CEBS

01 Oct 201811 Jul 2019

Student loan repayment benefits have been a hot topic in the news over the past few years, and a recent IRS private letter ruling has the benefit back in the spotlight. Here’s what you need to know about the two types of […]

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Does Telemedicine Live Up to the Hype?

Anne Patterson

25 Sep 201818 May 2020

Each month on Talking Benefits, I join Julie Stich, Kelli Kolsrud and Justin Held, International Foundation benefits nerdthusiasts, to discuss a trending employee benefits topic we think our listeners want to know more about (and if they didn’t think they wanted to know, they […]

How to Be a Family-Friendly and Single-Friendly Workplace

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How to Be a Single-Friendly and Family-Friendly Workplace

Lois Gleason, CEBS

20 Sep 201821 Sep 2018

You want to attract and retain productive employees in this job-seeker’s market. Should you offer family-friendly benefits and working conditions? Absolutely. But don’t take for granted your employees without children. It’s important to make sure you have a single-friendly workplace too. Great workers […]

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How Technology Can Transform the Future of Health Care

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

19 Sep 201818 Sep 2018

“Information is growing faster than we can handle and analyze efficiently, and medical data is expected to double every 73 days by 2020,” says Nathalie Le Prohon, vice president, health care industry for IBM Canada in Montreal, Quebec. But developments in technology […]

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Best Practices for Workplace Financial Education

rebeccae

12 Sep 201817 Sep 2018

Every time I come home from Costco or Target, I get ‘that look’ from my husband. You know the look . . . the look that says ‘why do we need 16 gallons of Nutella?’ (I promise—It will be gone before Christmas!) And […]