Benefit trend: Employers opt to give workers an allowance for health coverage

Employers are eyeing a health reimbursement arrangement in which they make tax-preferred contributions to employees to use to buy coverage on the individual market. Read More

Five Key Health Insurers Reveal 2025’s Medicare Advantage Plans

The announcements by Cigna, CVS, Humana, Centene, and UnitedHealth were made ahead of the beginning of Medicare Advantage enrollment, which begins Oct. 15. Among other news, a top California health ... Read More

Federal employee health-care premiums to rise 13.5 percent on average

The increase is nearly double last year’s 7.7. percent raise and driven by higher market costs this year, the Office of Personnel Management said. Read More

Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA): What It Is, How It Works

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news ... opt-out of the coverage. In addition, employers that continue to offer traditional group health ... Read More

Employers turn to alternative strategies to control health care spending

Only 34% of employers expect to shift costs to employees through premium contributions, and just 20% will promote account-based health plans or high-deductible health plans. Read More

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Health authorities say Marburg ... numbers behind breast cancer statistics and trends in the U.S. released by the American Cancer Society. ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Dr. Lisa Newman ... Read More

How States Are Enticing Employers to Help Their Workers Save for College

With college costs high, at least eight states now offer tax credits or deductions for employers that contribute to workers’ 529 accounts. Read More

Striking Boeing machinists could lose employee health care benefits tomorrow

According to the company’s website, union members who return to work during the strike on or after October 1, active health and insurance coverage will be reinstated. Read More

Biden Administration Issues Rules Making Mental Health Care More Accessible

9, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Beginning Jan. 1, Americans with private health insurance coverage ... who would benefit." However, the Biden administration believes the new rules give employers ... Read More

Top tips to help employers explain health benefits to their workforce

COBRA coverage enables employees and their families to keep their current employer's health insurance for up to ... conflicts have changed employer benefits faster than ever before and people ... Read More

Women's Health News

Sep. 24, 2024 — Cancer incidence trends in 2021 largely returned to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More