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The Six Drivers of Employee Engagement
We've all seen it before – new benefits programs that fall flat because employees don't interact with them. Employee engagement is critical to maximizing the value of your benefits portfolio.
When Taking into Consideration Premiums and Out-of-Pocket Expenses, CDHPs Can Save Employees Money
In a white paper released by Change Healthcare, 91 percent of employees with families and 65 percent of employees overall would have spent less under a CDHP than a PPO. Families averaged $140 per month in savings.
White Paper from Monocle Health Data Available for Download
As the IHC Froum West kicked off last week, Monocle Health Data released its white paper examining the health care transparency revolution.
Leading Through Transformation: Top Health Care CEOs' Perspectives on the Future of Health Care
The following is a white paper produced by Huron Healthcare.
Guidance for a Employer-sponsored Wellness Program Using Outcomes-based Incentives
This Consensus Statement was prepared by a Joint Committee of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), American Cancer Society (ACS) and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACSCAN), American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association (AHA). This was reviewed and approved by
National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) Announce Results of Health Care Survey
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) has produced a survey of their members
MetLife's Study of Employee Benefits Trends Sees Opportunity in Economic Climate
As you know, we’ve been following MetLife’s research for quite a while. We created Tip Sheets that are all about effective benefits communication for their Open Enrollment Toolbox, and we use the data from their annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends in our White Paper and CFO Infographic.
White Paper from CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions Outlines Strategy for SHOP Exchange
The implementation of the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) remains one of the most complex and least understood aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. To help provide clarity to state policymakers, employers, brokers and health plans, the nation’s leader in developing and administering health insurance exchange
New Galen Institute Paper Exposes why Health Insurance Exchanges Defined in PPACA Won’t Work
Exchanges create more bureaucracy and place more burdens on states already strapped for cash
Individual Insurance Benefits To Be Available Under ACA Would Have Cut Spending in 2001-08
Under the Affordable Care Act, individual health insurance will probably become more generous and more like employment-related insurance. Currently, individual insurance typically has less generous benefits than employment-related insurance. This study compared out-of-pocket spending on health care between individual and employment-related insurance, controlling for numerous characteristics such as health status.
Final Regulations Require New Health Plan Summaries for Most Fall Enrollments
The federal agencies responsible for implementing the health reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), issued final regulations relating to the requirement that insurers and plan sponsors distribute four-page "plain English" benefit summaries to health plan enrollees.
Wellness Coaches USA Releases '2011 Employer Outcomes Study'
Wellness Coaches USA is excited to release this summary of our “2011 Employer Outcomes Study” which details our employee “engagement” and “health risk factor improvement” results from 2009-2011.
Employers See Wellness Programs as key to Improving Employee Health, Cutting Health Care Costs
ADP survey reveals wellness programs are part of a human resource strategy for many large and midsized employers to improve employee health and control costs, but majority don’t measure return on investment
Care Continuum Alliance Paper Describes Core Components of Coordinated Care for Dual Eligibles
he Care Continuum Alliance (CCA) released a policy paper that recommends core components for programs to deliver integrated, coordinated care for people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid coverage dual eligibles.
Systematic Review of the Impact of Worksite Wellness Programs
To analyze the impact of worksite wellness programs on health and financial outcomes, and the effect of incentives on participation.
Value of Laboratory Tests in Employer-Sponsored HRAs for Newly Identifying Health Conditions
Employer-sponsored health risk assessments (HRA) may include laboratory tests to provide evidence of disease and disease risks for common medical conditions. We evaluated the ability of HRA-laboratory testing to provide new disease-risk information to participants.
The Value of On-site Health Centers
Employers are continually searching for ways to improve the health of their employees, control health care costs while still providing quality health care and provide benefits that their employees will truly value.
Letting the Facts Get in the Way
In recent months, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have emerged as vocal critics of the drug industry's reliance on copay cards, coupons, and other tools to help patients offset the cost of innovative brand-name medicines.
California Employer Health Benefits Survey
California workers are feeling the squeeze when it comes to their health benefits. The coverage landscape includes continued premium growth, more cost-sharing, and higher deductibles.
SIIA Counters Criticisms of Self-Insured Group Health Plans & Stop-Loss Insurance
The Self-Insurance Institute of America Inc. (SIIA) announced the release of a new white paper, entitled Self-Insured Group Health Plans, Stop-Loss Insurance & Adverse Selection, which has been published to correct inaccurate information state and federal policy-makers have been provided about how the self-insurance marketplace operates.
Accounting for the Cost of U.S. Health Care: Pre-reform Trends and the Impact of the Recession
Spending on health care in the United States is facing unprecedented public scrutiny.
Understanding Health Care Costs: The Employer-sponsored Insurance System
To understand how health care is financed in the United States, you must start with the flow of money into and out of the employer-sponsored insurance system, which covers almost 60 percent of the US population under age 65.
IRS Clarifies W-2 Reporting of Health Values
The IRS has clarified aspects of its guidance issued early in 2011, regarding the obligation of many employers to begin reporting health coverage values on employees' Forms W-2.
Altarum Institute Survey of Consumer Health Care Opinions
A powerful combination of factors has converged on health care in ways that will influence how consumers choose and use medical services. Rising costs, information transparency, and information technology set today’s stage for consumer choice.
Incentive Research Foundation Survey Says: Economy Impacting Incentive Trends
What a difference less than a year can make. Unlike the start of 2011, the Incentive Research Foundation’s (IRF) latest survey of incentive industry trends finds planners struggling with the effects of an economy caught in a slow recovery.
Findings From the 2011 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey
SEVENTH ANNUAL SURVEY: This Issue Brief presents findings from the 2011 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey. This study is based on an online survey of 4,703 privately insured adults ages 21-64 to provide nationally representative data regarding the growth of consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) and high-deductible health plans
MedeAnalytics Releases Comprehensive White Paper on ACO Final Rule
Report simplifies lengthy and complex regulation
Galen Institute Releases Recommendations for the Super Committee
New paper suggests that the Super Committee build on successes and take the long view of reform as a process
AEI Special Poll Report: Health Care
How have attitudes about health care changed since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? This “AEI Special Report: Health Care Polls” examines the evidence and compares the poll results.
