Employee Benefits

Jessica Brooks Woods, the outgoing chief executive, has been a longtime advocate for healthcare access.

Despite nearly eight in 10 currently being engaged in AI projects, only slightly more than half of hospitals feel operationally ready to implement them, the 2026 Healthcare AI Trends report from Guidehouse found.

The truth is, even the most engaged plan sponsors can only exert so much control over healthcare costs. What they can control is how they evaluate and monitor their vendors.

Households that earn the median annual income would need to spend an average of 7.3% of their earnings to pay for 2 mg of Ozempic.

The Department of Labor, not Congress, will likely be where most of the action is regarding retirement reform, Washington watchers say.

Most of the employers implementing paid family leave and paid parental leave see an improvement on attraction and retention.