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Health care quality study: Good news, bad news and in between
Health plans had poor results last year on reducing the use of antibiotics and on ensuring that chemically dependent patients…
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Survey: Employees unfamiliar with ACA but believe insurance costs will rise
About 60 percent of workers at large U.S. companies are unfamiliar with the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey…
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Rural areas pose challenges for insurance marketplaces
An estimated 60 million Americans live in rural areas of the United States. How these Americans use the new insurance…
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Join us for a webcast next week on how rural Americans will use the insurance marketplaces
Since Oct. 1, most of the coverage of the health insurance marketplaces has properly focused on how well the exchanges…
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Mercer survey shows cost increases to remain low but warns of issues to watch next year and beyond
Employers’ health insurance cost increases will remain relatively low next year at 4.8 percent, according to preliminary results from Mercer’s National…
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A compelling question: Will employees ask small employers to drop health coverage?
Brian Kalish posed this question in an article in Employee Benefit News on Sept. 24. Kalish was quoting Rodger Bayne,…
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Family doc wins MacArthur Foundation award for work with high utilizers of ER, inpatient care
“Right now we have a passive medical system that waits for you to come to it. What we need to…
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Employers use exchanges to shift employees, retirees away from traditional benefit plans
For years, employers have been seeking to control the rising cost of employee health insurance. Now they have a new…
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Studies raise questions about medical care in high-deductible health plans
In August, we reported on two surveys of employers that showed a movement toward less comprehensive health insurance. More employers…
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Employer survey shows continued move toward less comprehensive health insurance coverage
Almost every day there is news about the strategies employers are using as they prepare for the Affordable Care Act.…