Employer-sponsored health insurance is greatly affected by geographic region, industry, and employer size. While some cost trends have been fairly consistent since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was put in place, United Benefit Advisors (UBA) finds several surprises in their 2016 Health Plan Survey.
Topics: health care costs, Group health plans, Les McPhearson, UBA Health Plan Survey, employer-sponsored health insurance, health care benchmarking, industry benefit cost trends
United Benefit Advisors (UBA), the nation’s leading independent employee benefits advisory organization, is pleased to welcome Advantage Benefit Solutions (ABS) as its newest Partner Firm. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, and with an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, most of the team at ABS has been serving their clients for more than 10 years and has been creating the most competitive environment for its clients through employee benefit plans.
Topics: Les McPhearson, independent employee benefits advisors, group benefit plans, Advantage Benefit Solutions, Mark Stefanick, The Benefit Concierge
United Benefit Advisors (UBA), the nation’s leading independent employee benefits advisory organization, is proud to announce it has added CXC Solutions (CXC) as a new Strategic Partner. CXC is the industry benchmark in health benefits management solutions. These solutions are tailored to help benefits advisors reduce operating costs and generate additional revenues while enhancing client satisfaction.
Topics: Strategic Partner, Les McPhearson, Paul Zumbrook, strategic alliance, benefits management, CXC Solutions, Sarinder Chhabra, Ramesh Raghunathan
Workplace wellness programs are under the spotlight as new regulations change the legality of components and what information can and can’t be collected. United Benefit Advisors (UBA), the nation’s leading independent employee benefits advisory organization, announces the release of the new special report, 2016 TRENDS: HOW EMPLOYERS USE WELLNESS PROGRAMS, which covers topline trends among employer-sponsored health insurance programs, based on the 2016 UBA Health Plan Survey.
Topics: Les McPhearson, UBA Special Report, Heather Mills, Employer Wellness, 2016 trends, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Among employer-sponsored health insurance plans, consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) continue to increase in popularity even though they are offering less savings than a year ago, according to the 2016 Health Plan Survey from United Benefit Advisors (UBA), the nation’s largest independent survey of employer-sponsored benefits. UBA finds 26.4 percent of all U.S. employees are now enrolled in CDHP plans, an increase of 21.7 percent from last year and nearly 70 percent from five years ago.
Topics: health plan benchmarking, Les McPhearson, UBA Health Plan Survey, UBA Health Plan Survey Executive Summary, health care trends, consumer-directed health plan
