employer benefits

Health Benefit Consultants, Share Your Expert Insights in Our Survey

Share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health, healthcare navigation, and more.

By Stephanie Baum

The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions

In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.

By Impact Brands

Consumer / Employer

3 Trends Employers Should Watch Out for in 2024

The top three areas of concern for employers in 2024 include rising healthcare costs, mental health challenges and cancer care, according to a recent report from Business Group on Health.

By Marissa Plescia

Consumer / Employer

Report: Workers Trust Employers More Than Insurers With Their Health

Just 37% of employees trust their insurer to suggest high-quality care regardless of cost, while 53% trust their employer with their health, according to a survey released by Included Health.

By Marissa Plescia

Health Tech

Transcarent Partners With 10 Health Systems To Launch Provider Network

Transcarent announced a new provider network, which seeks to help its employer customers provide their staff with access to high-quality, affordable care. The network includes 10 health systems — including Mount Sinai, Mass General Brigham and Intermountain Health.

By Katie Adams

The Expanding Role of Benefit Consultants as Employers Look to Navigate Change

This new report sheds light on how the benefit consultants’ role has changed and details their perspective on the shifting employer healthcare landscape.

By Joel Berg

eBook

Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience

This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.

By Care Logistics

Consumer / Employer, Health Tech

Gen Z-Focused Mental Health Platform Founded by Stanford Psychologist Raises $6M

Wave Life — a mental health platform designed for Gen Z — recently closed a $6 million seed investment led by Santé Ventures. The company — which was founded by Sarah Adler, a clinical psychologist and clinical associate professor at Stanford’s psychiatry department — will use the funding to move further into the employer market and conduct research on its care model’s outcomes.

By Katie Adams

Consumer / Employer

High-cost Pharmacy Claims, Medical Inflation Among Top Threats for Employers

When asked what the biggest threats facing them were, 94% of employers said high-cost pharmacy claims, 91% said medical inflation and 91% said million dollar treatments being approved by the FDA, according to a new survey from the Midwest Business Group on Health.

By Marissa Plescia

Consumer / Employer

Posterity Health Raises $7.5M as Employers Expand Male Fertility Benefits

Posterity Health recently raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed funding round. The startup's digital male fertility platform offers a combination of virtual visits, at-home diagnostics and in-person consultations to assess and improve patients' fertility status.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers, Payers

Mission (Im)possible: Overcoming the Status Quo In Health Coverage to Offer More Personalization

Remaining at or near the top of employers’ and consumers’ choices when it comes to health coverage will require insurers to make large investments in infrastructure, processes and people to overcome the status quo.

By Richard Fu

Unlocking Transparency in PBM Pricing

The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.

Health Tech

Why Payers and Employers Are Still Doubtful That Virtual Care Will Have a Revolutionary Impact

Insurers and employers are optimistic about the possibilities of virtual care, but they're not very enthusiastic about the care modality's larger influence on the healthcare industry, according to a recent report. Just 29% of employers and 34% of payers and benefits consultants said that virtual care will drastically change the way healthcare is provided and outcomes are achieved.

By Katie Adams

Events

Helping employers navigate healthcare in a post-pandemic world at INVEST Digital Health

MedCity INVEST Digital Health will be held in collaboration with Health Wildcatters in Dallas, Texas on September 28. Want to speak on a panel or pitch how your startup is addressing employee benefits and supporting employers and employees? Apply today.

By Stephanie Baum

Consumer / Employer, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech

The work-from-home culture is slowing progress in the fight against prostate cancer

Studies have shown that men are less likely to use preventive healthcare services than women, and do not seek immediate treatment for many of their unique health problems.

By Reza Amin

Consumer / Employer, Health Tech

Aflac, NeuroFlow partner in aims of closing gaps in mental health care for customers

The financial terms of the three-year deal were not disclosed. Beginning in Q3, NeuroFlow will be available to new and existing clients that have fully insured group long-term disability policies through Aflac with more than 1,000 covered lives, according to the agreement.

By Michael Schroeder

Employee Benefits, Health Tech

What Morgan Health is doing in CA and OH to reinvent employer-sponsored health costs

On a panel discussion about employer-sponsored health benefits, the CEO of Morgan Health outlined some priorities and new efforts to reign in healthcare costs for employees while also providing them convenience and choice.

By Arundhati Parmar

Payers

At ViVE 2024, Panelists Share Prior Authorization Progress and Frustration in Payer Insights Program

At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.

Partnership Post

When Investment Rhymes with Canada

Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.

By Julien Rosan and Tina Kotrych - Global Affairs Canada