Discover how cost-benefit analysis helps determine project viability by balancing financial and intangible factors, its ...

Total health benefit cost per employee is expected to rise 5.8% on average in 2025, even after accounting for planned cost-reduction measures, according to an analysis based on a survey by Mercer. The ...

The survey, which included responses from more than 1,800 employers, found about half will make cost-cutting changes to their health plans next year, an increase from 44% in 2024. Companies have ...

Employers are bracing for a third straight year with health benefit costs increasing more than 5%, according to a new report from Mercer. The organization released preliminary findings from its annual ...

In the latest survey, 54% of employers identify cost reduction as the most important factor shaping their benefits decisions, ...

Throughout 2025, Congress introduced several bills related to the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry. As with the 118 th Congress in 2024 (see The Focus of Federal Proposals on Pharmacy ...

Optum Rx, UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy benefit management company, unveiled a new pricing trend May 20 — following an industrywide trend of increasing transparency on medication costs. The pharmacy ...

In our last issue, Steven Kelman of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government criticized cost-benefit analysis from the perspective not of economics but of ethical theory. He concluded that in health, ...