HHS Gives $1.5B in Grants to 11 States to Set Up Health Exchanges
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services it is giving $1.5 billion in grants to 11 states to launch or further develop health insurance exchanges. Those states are California, Delaware, Iowa,...
View ArticleValuing Value: California Mines New Health Coverage Plan Concepts
SeeChange Health and Blue Shield of California are two San Francisco insurance companies that are stepping up efforts to market value-based insurance design plans to large employers.
View ArticleNew Changes Made to HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Health and Human Services has issued final regulations that address recent legislative changes to the HIPAA privacy and date security rules. Compliance by employers will be required by Sept. 23,...
View ArticleEmployers' Deadline to Inform Employees of Health Exchanges and Cost-Sharing...
The March 1 deadline for businesses to notify employees of their benefits cost-sharing plans and government-run health insurance exchanges has been postponed. A new deadline is expected by fall.
View ArticleIRS Releases Final Rules on Health Care Reform Costs
The affordability test applies to employer-sponsored health plans. An employee is eligible to receive a federal subsidy to purchase insurance through an exchange if his or her employer's plan premium...
View ArticleSo This Is 30: How Health Care Rules Are Changing for Part-Timers
While part-time workers make up 23 percent of the total workforce, only 15 percent of them are eligible for health coverage, survey reveals.
View ArticleWill That Knee Replacement Cost an Arm and a Leg?
With more employees enrolling in high-deductible health plans, a nonprofit business group endeavors to pull back the curtain on health costs. In a statement, the Catalyst for Payment Reform pushes for...
View ArticleHealth Risk Assessments Get Social Status
One company is enticing insurers by blending the traditional HRA with social networking, mobile technology, games and behavioral psychology.
View ArticleTaking Better Care of Those Who Care for Seniors at Home
Some 6 million seniors employ in-home caregivers for daily assistance, and that number is expected to double by 2030. Yet many in-home caregivers struggle to make ends meet. More than 90 percent are...
View ArticleCareers, Culture & Cancer
No one likes to talk about cancer, but it is not the taboo workplace subject it was in years past. In fact, progressive companies are supporting workers who have cancer like never before.
View ArticleStep Into My Office
Employers such as Chicago-based Red Frog Events are looking to improve their overall employment deal, spelling out an overall compensation and culture package that often includes a company vision for...
View ArticleWhat the Young Adult Coverage Provision Means to Me
Ed Frauenheim is on assignment. The risks of being uninsured traditionally hung above the proverbial head of the youngest generation entering America's workforce like the Sword of Damocles . Since the...
View Article'Global Nomads' Finding There's No Place Like Home for Benefits
The upturn in so-called 'global nomads'—those who move from country to country on long-term assignments—has focused more attention on their medical and retirement benefits.
View ArticleMost Employers Plan to Continue Offering Health Care Plans
An overwhelming majority of midsized and large companies plan to continue offering employees health care plans, rather than pay the high price of penalties and other financial costs.
View ArticleElder Care—You Can't Buy, Pray or Prescribe Your Way Out of It
Ed Frauenheim is on assignment. I had been looking forward to lunch with my friend Kate for some time. During the past few years we've bonded over the travails of raising teenagers, the challenges of...
View ArticleTurn Here: GPS Tracking Gains Acceptance
In the early days, employees feared that GPS monitoring was a form of 'Big Brother' watching, but workers are becoming more accepting of tracking since companies are no longer just using the...
View ArticleWorkforce Bags Second Straight Neal Award
The magazine won a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Senior Writer Rita Pyrillis’ in-depth look at employer-sponsored health care.
View ArticleYes, They Worry: Nearly Half of U.S. Workers Uncertain About Retirement
Despite the recovering U.S. economy, almost all American workers feel uncertain about their ability to live comfortably in retirement, according to a survey conducted by the Employee Benefits Research...
View ArticleMore Employers Looking to Impose Wellness Program Nonparticipation Penalties...
Fifty-eight percent of employers are looking to impose penalties on employees who do not participate in health and wellness programs in the coming years, according to a survey published by Aon Hewitt.
View ArticleThe Pre-existing Conditions: Buildup to Health Care Reform Bound to Bring...
A flood of marketing materials from private and state health care exchanges, insurance providers and others that are expected to start peddling their health insurance products will flood employees as...
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