Unless you’re in that ever-so-small minority of companies that foot the entire health insurance bill, you’ve struggled over where to set employee co-pays. Here’s help.

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Tags: Current healthcare premiums, Employee co-pays, Employee Contribution, Healthcare bill, Recent benchmarks

Our President-elect promises to revamp the country’s entire healthcare system, but what does his plan actually entail? Experts say this example should give a pretty good indication.

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Tags: MA, Mitt Romney, National healthcare plan, Obama, President-elect, Universal Health Care

Reimbursing employees via debit cards can streamline your processes and boost participation in these healthcare cost cutters. Just make sure you pick the right vendor for the job.

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Tags: Debit cards, Flex Spending Account (FSA), Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), Health reimbursements, Heath Savings Account (HSA), IRS compliance

You know getting employees and their families to take a more active interest in their own health is the best way to control healthcare expenses. Here’s your best route in.

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Tags: American Medical Association, Body Mass Index (BMI), Health Engagement, Health fairs, healthcare costs, Web MD

It’s tough to put “health care” and “cost cutter” in the same sentence. But employers at their wits’ end are now trying this — with some success.

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Tags: Cost-cutter, Financial incentives, Health care, Healthier employees, Preventative health screenings

Maybe you have to raise employee co-pays again. Or perhaps you’re going to stop offering retiree health benefits. Here’s the best way to communicate unpopular info.

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Tags: Bad news, Buy-in, Employee co-pays, Healthcare plan, Retiree health benefits

Tough economic times bring out the worst in certain office personalities, awakening latent bullies or making active ones more belligerent. Here’s why you should care.

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Tags: Absenteeism, Anti-bullying legislation, Discrimination, healthcare costs, Office bully, Turnover

Finally, there are some numbers to back up what wellness pioneers have been predicting: These programs actually save companies money.

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Tags: Fitness programs, Healthcare experts, Kaiser family foundation, Principal study, Wellness programs

Which job is more physically taxing: stuntman or finance staffer? Hint: A stuntman gets a mat.

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Tags: Carpal tunnel syndrome, Computer injuries, Data entry, Data retrieval, Finance workstations, Stuntman, Workspace guidelines

Healthcare alert! A bill with the potential to drastically change the way small businesses pay for health care coverage will probably go to Congress sometime before year’s end.

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Tags: ACS, Bare-bones coverage, Congress, Group rates, Michael Enzi, Small-business health care bill, State Association of Attorney General