Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
Vaccines are a big business. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to take a blowtorch to it. Next week’s meeting of an outside panel of vaccine experts could transform how major insurance carriers cover shots instrumental in containing the spread of deadly diseases like Covid-19, measles, mumps and rubella. Kennedy, as health secretary, has already stacked the influential panel with ...
With more than 1,700 employers polled, findings show that total health benefit costs per employee are expected to rise by an average of 6.5% in 2026, the highest rate since 2010.
Individuals with significant chronic and comorbid conditions drive a disproportionate percentage of the health care dollars spent by employers on workplace-based health care benefits. High-cost claimants account for about 20% of participants but about 80% of spending, according to an EBRI fact sheet. “This matters to employers, who have spent decades trying to control rising health ...
If Amy Friedrich is right, benefits advisors who see a way to help employers lock in reasonable dental insurance prices through 2028 should do that. Friedrich warned about the possibility of coming price hikes last week in New York, at a conference for insurance stock investors that was organized by KBW. Friedrich, the president of Principal ...
As inflation remains high and economic concerns persist, financial struggles are hitting workers across industries and job levels—but one talent pool may be facing particularly challenging times, necessitating strategic involvement from HR, experts say. Gig workers and other nontraditional talent make up an increasing share of the American workforce, but they are often left without the ...
The move will give more Americans a coverage alternative with low monthly premiums come November’s open enrollment, but could come at the expense of people who remain in standard ACA plans.
Five months after embarking on a “massive testing and research effort” to root out the cause of the nation’s “autism epidemic,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is getting ready to present his findings this month. The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to release a report listing the use of Tylenol ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unrepentant Thursday about his shakeup of the nation’s public health agency and overhaul of federal vaccine policy, accusing a departed director and top medical organizations of lying. Kennedy, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, said he fired former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director ...
The president said many think the shots he helped develop are ‘amazing’ a day after senators criticized new restrictions imposed by his health secretary, RFK Jr.
As the Trump administration takes aim at fraud, waste and abuse in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) market, Republicans in Congress are touting new data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as evidence backing the effort. Legislators asked the CBO to dig further into the potential coverage impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ...