by Celena Barton | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog, ERISA Resources
The Employee Retirement and Income Security Act, commonly referred to as ERISA, is a federal law enacted in 1974 to protect individuals participating in employer-sponsored retirement plans and health insurance plans. The law also protects an employee’s beneficiaries...
by Celena Barton | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog
A study recently published in The Lancet looks at the amount of healthcare spending that is attributable to modifiable risk factors in the U.S. The study showed that an estimated $730 billion, or 27% of healthcare spending, could be attributed to modifiable behaviors....
by appliedev | Jul 24, 2020 | Blog
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Employer Sponsored Health Benefit Plans, employers are the principle source of health insurance in the United States, providing benefits to over 153 million non-elderly people in America. Sixty-one percent of covered...
by Celena Barton | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
A previous blog post discussed how insurers were venturing into the primary care space by opening their own clinics, most notably the partnership between CVS Health and Aetna to operate MinuteClinics. Now retailers are the latest to jump into the market with Wal-Mart...
by Celena Barton | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
Another big change is taking place in the healthcare market as health insurers open their own primary care clinics, as described in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. The move allows for some of the nation’s largest health insurers to take control of both...
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