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Your total compensation spreadsheet tells a tidy story. Salary, payroll taxes, 401(k) match, health plan premium. Neat columns. If you’re a CFO staring at...
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Your total compensation spreadsheet tells a tidy story. Salary, payroll taxes, 401(k) match, health plan premium. Neat columns. If you’re a CFO staring at...
A 2019 Health Affairs study of national commercial ACO contracts found no significant reduction in total medical spending over two years. A 2022 analysis of...
Mental health claims are the fastest-growing cost category in employer-sponsored health plans. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, outpatient mental...
The cost of an MRI does not change if the employer paying for it trades on the NYSE or is family-owned. What does change is how the organization thinks...
The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit has been around since 2014. It can cover up to half the premiums a qualifying employer pays. That sounds like a...
Value-based insurance design promised to fix a broken incentive. It did half the job. If a diabetes medication prevents a $30,000 hospital stay, the logic...
A $500 gift card handed out as a wellness reward is not tax-free. It’s taxable wages. Employers hand out these incentives every year-gift cards, prepaid...
U.S. per capita healthcare spending sits near $12,900 a year, roughly double the average in comparable developed nations. For American employers, this is...
More than 40 states require insurers to reimburse telehealth visits at the same rate as an office visit. As of late 2024, the Center for Connected Health...
One in every four dollars spent on employer healthcare delivers no value. That’s the National Academy of Medicine’s estimate, and it covers unnecessary...
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