New Legislation Takes Aim at the Employer Mandate
After managing to jettison the individual mandate requiring U.S. adults to carry health coverage, efforts are afoot in Congress to do away with the Affordable Care Act employer mandate, although […]
After managing to jettison the individual mandate requiring U.S. adults to carry health coverage, efforts are afoot in Congress to do away with the Affordable Care Act employer mandate, although […]
It’s no secret that the cost of pharmaceuticals is going through the roof. You’ve heard the stories of price-gouging by some companies that have jacked up prices thousands of percent. […]
As employers continue trying to figure out how to reduce their business’s and their employees’ health insurance outlays while providing quality care, some companies are taking bold steps and experimenting […]
The Trump administration has taken another step in its effort to roll out short-term health insurance plans by extending the amount of time such plans can be in effect. Under […]
After announcing that it would stop paying risk-adjustment payments to insurance companies with plans on the individual market on July 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reversed course […]
As group health insurance costs continue rising every year, more employers are embracing a new plan model that aims to both cut costs and improve outcomes for patients. This trend, […]
Most business owners know about the yearly $2,000 per-employee fine they would face for not securing health coverage for their employees under the Affordable Care Act. But there is even […]
Regulations governing how wellness plans offer discounts on health premiums are set to sunset in January 2019, and with no prospects of replacement regulations in sight at the Equal Employment […]
As the number of employers offering high-deductible health plans continues growing, the spotlight recently has highlighted an inconvenient truth: some employees are going broke and filing bankruptcy because they cannot […]
The Department of Labor in June issued its final rules for expanding employers’ access to association plans, a move that could result in some increases in premiums for other plans, […]