Health Benefits

• PBMInews - Spring/Summer 2008

  A Florida company is reporting great success with a value-based benefits culture, reports PBMInews, a publication of the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute. Read their case study in this month's issue. PBMInews is one of many drug benefit resources available to employers with a membership in PBMI.

• Health savings accounts growing among smaller firms

  Consumer-driven health plans featuring health savings accounts and health reimbursement accounts have grown steadily in the past few years, and are likely to grow further in 2008.

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• Ten techniques for communicating about retirement plans

  Communicating with employees about their retirement benefits can be a challenge. Varying degrees of investment knowledge, scattered workforces, limited time and busy schedules all conspire to make getting the message across very difficult

• Thinking globally, recruiting locally

  The war for talent has gone global, meaning more U.S. multinationals are turning to recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) vendors to help them to reduce costs in hiring local talent for their overseas operations.

• Controlling health insurance costs: A step-by-step guide

  Health insurance represents the lion's share of your benefits costs, and any actions you take regarding these benefits have tremendous short- and long-term implications. Make sure that you're doing all you can to keep costs down and employee satisfaction up by performing a systematic review of your insurance programs.

• Wellness programs paying big dividends

  Smaller firms are starting to reap the benefits of health promotion and disease prevention previously enjoyed only by larger companies.

• Fruitguys' help employers, employees jump on the wellness wagon

  There's the age-old saying that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what if that apple was really a carton of fresh apples, bananas, oranges and other seasonal fruits, delivered fresh from local growers to your office each week?

• 'We want wellness,' SMB employees say

  Two-thirds of the nation is overweight or obese, yet just one in seven SMB employees have access to wellness programs through their employer.

• EBN/Forrester research: Employers use HSAs to dam up cost increases

  The 2007 Employee Benefit News/Forrester Research Benefits Decisions' Impact Study, which surveyed more than 900 benefits professionals, examines employers' overall benefits strategies and their preferences with regard to account-based health plans.

• With the right incentives, employers really can please all the people all the time

  According to the founders of MedEncentive, the nation's health care system is a failure because someone always feels like they're losing, whether it's a patient, physician or payers.

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