Product Trends/Success Stories

• PBM Satisfaction Survey can help employers select a plan

  Top-ranked Walgreens Health Initiatives explains its winning member-satisfaction approach

• PBM Satisfaction Survey can help employers select a plan

  Top-ranked Walgreens Health Initiatives explains its winning member-satisfaction approach

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• Guardian emerging as pioneer of innovative dental benefits coverage

  For half a century, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has sought to strike a delicate balance on providing the right group dental insurance at the right price point that satisfies several key stakeholders. The challenge is allowing employers and benefit brokers to achieve their business imperatives while also recognizing that coverage decisions are intensely personal and will vary from one consumer to the next.

• Medication therapy management seen as promising path to Rx efficacy, savings

  Critics of the U.S. health care system have long lamented the clinical disconnect among hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, health plans and patients, especially when it comes to treating those who are most in need of prescription drugs for chronic conditions.

• MetLife benefit trends study: More employees looking to workplace for financial assistance

  MetLife's sixth annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends suggests a call to action among employers, insurance brokers and carriers in terms of providing enough personalized benefits information that's accessible, understandable and actionable.

• 'Person-centric' approach to health management emerging as key to

  A simple truth lies at the heart of Corporate America's struggle to rein in health care costs: Employees are consuming more health care than before.

• Upgrade to benefit plan modeling tools sure to sharpen actuarial assumptions

  Coming this summer: a blockbuster upgrade from the developer of health benefit modeling tools just in time for open-enrollment planning to project migration, costs and budgets, negotiate renewals and develop plan design alternatives.

• Holistic strategy holds promise for improving population health and productivity

  The idea behind following an information-driven holistic strategy for improving employee population health and productivity is that employers be able to draw a quantifiable link between an organization's health care costs and operating budget. Look no further than General Motors Corp., which can say with certainty that the cost of providing health care coverage to actives and retirees adds $1,500 to each vehicle.

• 'Informed enrollment' provides turnkey solution for meaningful health plan selection

  Imagine an algorithm that recommends the most appropriate level of health insurance coverage based on each employee's health care utilization and spending during the previous year, much like Amazon.com uses a customer's sales history to suggest CDs, DVDs, books or other items.

• Holistic strategy holds promise for improving population health and corporate welfare

  The idea behind following an information-driven holistic strategy for improving the state of employee population health and corporate welfare is that employers be able to draw a quantifiable link between an organization's health care costs and operating budget. Look no further than General Motors Corp., which can say with certainty that the cost of providing health care coverage to actives and retirees adds $1,500 to each vehicle.