According to the data, overall leaves of absence increased 30% between 2019 and 2024 with a staggering 300% increase when looking specifically at mental health-related leaves of absence.

The analysts assumed in illustrations for 2026 forecasts that a typical employer's stop-loss premiums will rise 11.5% next year. But "actual policyholder results will vary, with increases approaching ...

UnitedHealth Group has stepped up its lobbying efforts targeting the Trump administration as it seeks to rebound from numerous lawsuits and regulatory issues that have caused its market value to ...

The U.S. Census Bureau's new American Community Survey tables show that employers in 10 states provided health coverage for fewer than 58% of the people ages 18 through 64 in those states. That ...

The total health benefit cost per employee is expected to rise an average of 6.5% next year, even after accounting for planned cost-reduction measures.

This comes after the FTC issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, which has since been challenged in federal court.

Plan sponsors view advisor value as a combination of service and cost, with their top priorities including improving participant outcomes, boosting employee satisfaction and optimizing plan design to ...

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The administration of President Donald Trump mentions insurance and health savings accounts, briefly, in its new Make Our Children Healthy Again report. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

The Empowering Striking Workers Act would allow workers to be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits 14 days after going on strike.

Insurers and plan administrators have already sued providers over their efforts to increase reimbursement levels.

The U.S. workers in the farming, fishing and forestry industries were only about half as likely to have private health coverage in 2024 as our architects and engineers.