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Inadequate state funding, voluntary programs and a lack of interstate operability hamper efforts to reduce prescription drug abuse.

A patient-centered approach that reduces adversarial tension puts employees on the road to recovery faster.

Risk & Insurance® and Healthcare Solutions convene a pharmacy benefit management roundtable discussion over breakfast in Atlanta.

Changes are coming for older workers staying on the job for benefits, and employers looking to stop providing coverage.

An increasing number of U.S. companies are implementing the strategy to achieve contribution certainty, eliminate financial statement volatility and enable a greater focus on their core business.

Risk & InsuranceŽ and its sister publication Human Resource ExecutiveŽ profile the best of the best in the area of employee benefits consulting.

Psychology and the attitude of workers toward pain and their employment in general remain the great untested waters in workers' compensation.

With the passage of the Marriage Equality Act in New York, the state joins six other states in which same-sex couples can get married. What will that mean for domestic-partner benefits?

Analysis of medical claims data reveals important clues about employee health, allowing companies to intervene with those who are most at risk, and to ask hard questions of their carriers at renewal.

More than 20 states offer such plans to employees, and in 2010 more than 70 percent of Indiana's 30,000 state workers chose high-deductible plans linked to health savings accounts.

As healthcare reform continues to drive toward more drug-price transparency, employers and benefits managers need to up the ante on drug manufacturers and pharmacy-benefits managers.

Morale in the workplace is low, according to eye-opening recent research, but it isn't anywhere near enough to lead to wholesale revolt.

We've named the 28 winners and 11 finalists for our annual Top Employee Benefits Consultant Award. See who's who here.

Forward-thinking benefits consultants and brokers are already pondering the next wave of changes, as organizations still work to overcome the initial challenges associated with healthcare reform.

The field for the Top Employee Benefits Consultant Award was tough, so not only did we recognize winners. We felt the urge to give props to 11 finalists as well.

Some sectors, such as retail, could face a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma when coming to terms with federal healthcare reform. Meanwhile, change could be easier for other industries.