Tout Tax Benefits of Long-term Disability Insurance to Your Staff
One of the most overlooked and undervalued employee benefits is long-term disability insurance. Often, even if the employer offers to cover the low premium, employees don’t sign up. They think […]
New Rules Lay Down Law for Group Plans in 2019
In the final rules that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released for 2019, it also covered annual cost-sharing limits for group plans, rules on SHOP exchanges, and grandfathered […]
New Rules Issued for Small Group, Individual Plans
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rules on giving states more power to regulate individual and small group health insurance markets. The new rules […]
Medicare Advantage Plans Get Big Boost for 2019
Reflecting health care cost trends, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule increasing payments to Medicare Advantage plans to 3.4% in 2019. The announcement was […]
Maximum Family HSA Contribution Reduced for 2018
One of the unintended consequences of the tax bill that was signed into law by President Trump in December was a change to the HSA contribution limits for 2018, and […]
OSHA’s Anti-retaliation Rules for ACA
Do you know that Fed-OSHA has regulations on whistleblowing and employer retaliation under the Affordable Care Act? The rules set forth procedures and time frames for reporting and processing whistleblower […]
Proposed Regs on Small Business Association Plans Could Invite Fraud
Proposed regulations that would allow small businesses and individuals to band together to purchase group coverage could open up a new era of fraud in U.S. health insurance, according to […]
Five Ways Employers Can Save on Health Care Costs
In recent years, many companies have been dealing with rising health care costs largely by transferring more of the expense and risk on to their employees. But some employers have […]