Many Employees Hit with Higher Health Care Premiums
Many can’t afford unexpected medical expenses, survey shows. More employees are getting hit with higher health insurance premiums and co-payments, and many don’t have…
Firms Weigh Costs Of Health Care
Here’s something that probably will astonish small business owners battered by years of steep health insurance premium increases: The majority of companies that provide…
The Affordable Care Act—Countdown to Compliance for Employers: ERISA Section 510 and Limiting Employee Hours
It is asserted that the strategy of capping the annual hours of new “variable hour employees” as a way to limit exposure under the…
IRS Bars Employers From Dumping Workers Into Health Exchanges
Many employers had thought they could shift health costs to the government by sending their employees to a health insurance exchange with a tax-free…
Preparedness For The ACA On An Upswing, But Small Business Lags
With the first round of employer mandates required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) set to begin in 2015, a new survey finds that…
Updated COBRA Notices and Proposed Guidance Issued Model notices highlight ACA’s Marketplace coverage as a COBRA alternative
The Obama administration announced updates to model notices that employers must provide to employees, informing workers of their eligibility to continue health care coverage…
Health Exchange Notification Requirements
As you may be aware, part of the new regulations for the Affordable Care Act require that employers notify employees of the upcoming Health…
The Form W-2 Reporting Provision of Health Care Reform
The Form W-2 reporting provision of Health Care Reform is intended to help employees better understand their employer-provided benefits and the true cost to…
Medical Loss Ratio Rebates – Do You Know How to Handle Them?
Employers only have 90 days to complete any distribution of the rebate In August of this year, some employers with fully insured employee health…
Health Care Rises on CFO Priority Lists
They’re looking more and more at the impact of new and higher costs and planning for big health-care reform provisions that have yet to…