Veteran health care journalist and author Marshall Allen tells the story of a 51-year-old man who needed two MRIs of his back. His nurse practitioner referred him to a nearby hospital-affiliated imaging... Read more »
?When film critic Roger Ebert lost his ability to speak while being treated for thyroid cancer, CereProc, a company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was able to create a text-to-speech program using hundreds... Read more »
Employers that offer prescription drug coverage in 2023 must provide notices of “creditable” or “noncreditable” coverage to Medicare-eligible employees or covered dependents before the annual Medicare Part D annual enrollment period begins.... Read more »
Nearly half (48 percent) of U.S. workers report inflation is making it difficult for them to pay for their benefits, while 40 percent said inflation will make them scale back on the... Read more »
?The scorching heat wave across the U.S. and around the world is creating dire working conditions. Nearly 1,500 U.S. cities broke daily high temperatures in the past 30 days: Lancaster, Calif., set... Read more »
?With inflation in the U.K. at 10 percent, employers and retirement plan trustees are left grappling with the best way to administer their plans. The two types of retirement schemes—defined benefit plans... Read more »
?Over the past two years, a series of tragedies has brought social justice issues and politics to the forefront of the national conversation. The murder of George Floyd made headlines worldwide. Then... Read more »
?Two years after launching its Together Forward @Work initiative, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is partnering with other organizations to support racial equity and representation once again. In August, SHRM... Read more »
?A collection of nurses unions asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order the U.S. Department of Labor to make permanent the agency’s emergency temporary standard... Read more »
For the past few years, California’s comprehensive privacy law known as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) included an important partial exemption for employees, applicants, and independent contractors, collectively known as workforce... Read more »
