Mercer, perhaps a bellwether for growth in the private exchange space, will have 31% more active-employee exchange clients in 2016.
Thanks to a proliferation of high-cost drugs for complex conditions, pharmacy expenses outpace overall medical cost growth.
Buck Consultants applies for a patent on the underlying process and technology of a new service.
The increases are still high, though, and they're accelerating globally.
Towers Watson expands its exchange business into the midsized and small markets with its purchase of Liazon, a major player in the space.
Companies with 50 to 99 workers don't necessarily have reason to hope insurers will let them keep their noncompliant plans, despite Obama announcement.
Or is Buck Consultants’ “exchange” not really an exchange at all but rather a collection of health-benefits services wrapped in that label? Does it matter?
The rhetoric is heated and getting hotter all the time in the emerging field of private health-benefits insurance exchanges. Where does the real truth lie?
To date the online portals have mostly served small corporate customers, but it looks like that may soon be changing.
Low-paid workers who now will be eligible for generous federal subsidies to buy health insurance next year may have grounds to sue their employers in 2015.
Almost four in five employees at the three customers of Aon Hewitt’s new private exchange chose a different kind of plan than they had used previously. More opted for a less-costly plan than one with better benefits.
Buck Consultants jumps into the game with an exchange for which insurance carriers compete in each geographic area to be the sole provider there.
