With a self-insured health plan, your employer pays for your medical claims directly. With a fully insured plan, an insurance company pays claims on behalf of an employer. Both fully insured and ...

Fewer employee benefits are as hotly debated and misunderstood as level-funded and self-insured health plans. There's no denying an ability to tailor benefits to the workforce for cost savings and a ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

As health care costs and employer-sponsored insurance premiums rise year after year, the burden on both employer and employee grows more onerous with little relief in sight. A recent survey of 1,700 ...

In recent years, prescription drug prices have been top-of-mind for state legislators, who have responded by passing laws that seek to control that pricing in a variety of ways, including by ...

The landscape of employer-sponsored healthcare is rapidly evolving, with rising costs (registration required) driving the need for innovative funding alternatives. As a group health plan consultant ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Today, about 37% of covered workers are enrolled in fully ...

A bill in the state General Assembly that imposes several mandates on self-funded, employer-sponsored health plans has drawn strong opposition from brokers and businesses, who say it will spike ...

Employer health coverage costs are expected to surge more than 9% in 2026, according to recent reports by two large insurance providers, which would be the largest business health insurance cost ...