“Working makes us feel normal. Even if your life is chaotic, you want to feel normal.” Lillie Shockney shared that insight at The Alliance Learning Circle event, “Cancer in the Workplace: Current Cancer Care Issues for Employers” on March 16.
Cancer is typically one of the highest-cost conditions for an employer’s health plan. So it’s best to be prepared and have supportive resources ready when an employee says, “I have cancer.”
One of the last pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be implemented, and perhaps one of the most controversial, is the 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health plans, often referred to as the “Cadillac Tax”.
Twenty national employers recently announced they have joined together to form the Health Transformation Alliance. The aim is to pool their data and market power to better control health care costs.
