Key Insight: Discover how prioritizing specialty, behavioral health, and data can curb rising employer costs. Supporting Data: Employers project a 9% rise in healthcare spending for 2026 (Business Group on Health). Forward Look: Prepare for intensified focus on specialty access, behavioral supports, and benefit analytics. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review As employers struggle to find […]
Key insight: Learn how benefits and workflow tools transform retention into strategic workforce resilience. Expert quote: Giraldo: Supporting clinicians with mental health, flexibility and advancement fosters better patient care. Supporting data: HRSA projects major healthcare staffing shortages for 12 years, especially rural and critical-care. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review Benefits that provide stability and growth […]
Key Insight: Discover how aggregating clinical and vendor data lets employers steer care and reduce costs. Expert Quote: “Benefits now influence hiring as much as salary,” says David Murtagh, VP Product, Claritev. Supporting Data: Baseline renewals add 7–10% annual health-plan cost increases if employers make no changes. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review Double-digit health care […]
Key Insight: Discover how targeted plan redesigns can blunt double-digit healthcare inflation without across-the-board cuts. What’s at Stake: Rising benefits costs threaten employer margins and workforce access to necessary care. Expert Quote: Evaluate networks to achieve hard-dollar savings while protecting population health — Eric Miller, Segal. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review Healthcare costs are nearing […]
In a rapidly evolving workplace landscape, Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) has emerged as a critical safety net for millions of American workers. However, many companies still treat PFML as a compliance-mandated requirement rather than the gateway to a broader ecosystem of support through voluntary benefits. Voluntary benefits go beyond standard medical plans and […]
Key Insight: Learn how combining human guidance with AI is reshaping benefits decision-making. What’s at Stake: Poor literacy risks misenrollment, financial exposure and workforce disengagement. Expert Quote: Advisers must teach “kitchen-table” language, says Brown & Brown managing partner Erika Illiano. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review This is part 3 in an on-going series. Read part 1 and part […]
What’s at Stake: Rising healthcare costs threaten employer affordability, coverage options, and competitiveness. Supporting Data: Healthcare spending projected to rise 6% annually 2023–2033. Forward Look: Plan for preventive investments; Deloitte models suggest up to $2.2 trillion annual savings by 2040. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review As healthcare costs continue to climb, leaders face mounting pressure […]
What You Need To Know An ICHRA reboot provision almost made it into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Lawmakers are trying to get the legislation through Congress in the form of stand-alone bills. Two people who could influence the fate of the bills are Daniel Aronowitz and Mark Bertolini. Supporters of individual coverage health […]
Premium payments will more than double in 2026 if enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire at the end of this year as scheduled, a KFF analysis found. “There is a hot debate in Washington about the looming ACA premium hikes, but our poll shows that most people in the Marketplaces don’t know about them […]
What’s at Stake: Widespread furloughs could disrupt benefits administration and operational continuity across public-sector contractors. Expert Quote: “Leaders should provide clarity, compassion and contingency planning,” warns Jennifer Schielke. Forward Look: Prepare liquidity strategies and curated resource libraries for recurrent federal funding disruptions. Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review With the government shutdown well underway, it’s up […]