Company Bankruptcy: Impact on Employee Insurance Benefits

Discover how company bankruptcy affects employee insurance benefits and coverage. Learn if and how you can retain benefits ...
MedPage Today

How to Improve the Health Payment System? Experts Count the Ways at Senate Hearing.

Witnesses at a Senate hearing on the topic offered different answers to that question. "The original sin of U.S. healthcare ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Expiring ACA Subsidies and CMS Payment Models Raise Costs for Consumers and Employers

ACA subsidies' expiration will increase premiums, affecting individuals earning up to 400% of the Federal Poverty Line, risking loss of coverage for millions. Employers face rising health insurance ...
HeraldNet

Comment: Employers have it hard here; state’s taxes make it harder

If you have ever wondered how many warning flares Washington policymakers need before they stop piling new taxes on employers, the answer is always, “At least one more.” An Association of Washington ...
Fierce Healthcare

Mark Cuban implores employers to consider cash pay, simplify contracting

In a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday with Scripta Insights CEO Eric Levin, Mark Cuban spoke passionately about the potential of simplified contracting and cash pay. Scripta is a partner of Cuban’s ...
HR Dive

Employers, workers to face healthcare ‘affordability crunch,’ Mercer warns

The average cost of employer-sponsored health insurance climbed to $17,496 in 2025, up 6% from the year before and in excess of rates of inflation and wage growth, according to Mercer’s recent 2025 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Employers can expect +$18.5K in per-worker health insurance costs next year

Employers can anticipate a 6.7% increase in total health benefit costs in 2026 — the steepest in 15 years — according to the 2025 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans from consulting ...
beckerspayer

Employers could grapple with $18.5K+ in health insurance costs per person in 2026

Employers can expect a 6.7% increase in total health benefit costs in 2026 — the steepest in 15 years — according to the 2025 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans from consulting firm ...
Morningstar

Mercer Survey Finds US Employers and Workers Will Face Affordability Crunch as Health Insurance Cost Is Expected to Exceed $18,500 Per Employee in 2026

Mercer Survey Finds US Employers and Workers Will Face Affordability Crunch as Health Insurance Cost Is Expected to Exceed $18,500 Per Employee in 2026 Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

PBM reform: Employers are finding their own fix

Pharmacy costs remain one of the toughest challenges in employer-sponsored health plans, and comprehensive federal reform is likely a long way off. As Congress debates pharmacy benefit manager reform, ...
Government Executive

How long will OPM keep paying for feds’ health insurance during the shutdown, a senator asks

With the current government shutdown on the precipice of becoming the longest budget stalemate in history, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., wants to know how the Office of Personnel Management plans on ...