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Negotiation is common practice throughout health care, from negotiating rates with insurance carriers to the pricing of your prescriptions. But did you know you can put the power of negotiation to work for you?

Apex Benefits has made the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s 16th annual Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces list for small employers.

Careful preparation can make your health plan renewals more effective and less painful. Being prepared means knowing the projected risk of your current situation and identifying alternative solutions now — so you can mitigate year-end cost increases.

A workplace accomplice is willing to stand with or act to protect those who are being harassed, excluded, ostracized or otherwise mistreated even if that means suffering professional backlash.

The right plan can improve employee health, boost morale and increase attraction and retention rates without straining your budget.

When it comes to employee health plan renewals, each year presents new challenges for employers – and those challenges often depend on what’s happening in our country and the world.

On Thursday, July 21, Amazon closed the deal to purchase One Medical, a membership-based primary care practice, for $3.9 billion.

Compensation-related articles and tips often focus on teaching managers how to have conversations with their employees about pay and compensation.

In 2020, congress approved 988 to be designated the new phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

According to Apex Benefits HR Specialist and Recruiter, Lauren Lewis, there are three pillars when it comes to recruiting.

Instead of quitting the workforce entirely, many employees have simply been finding different jobs. Economists have begun referring to this situation not as the “Great Resignation” but rather as the “Great Reshuffle.”

Health costs increase every year due to inflation or, say, a global pandemic. With that in mind, employers can bank on prices going up in 2022.