Instructional Designer at the International Foundation
Favorite Foundation Product: Employee Benefits Survey (conducted every two years; it is very comprehensive).
Benefits-Related Topic Top Picks: The changing landscape of America’s costly health care system, ERISA compliance, retirement decumulation strategies.
Favorite Things About Working at the Foundation: My co-workers and how much they care about the quality of their work product. I also love, love, love all the windows in our office with their beautiful views of trees and sky.
Personal Insight: I am constantly reading. I can relate to the flaws, strengths, and silly inconsistencies found in the characters of classic novels like Middlemarch, North and South, and A Tale of Two Cities. I also read the daily newspapers every morning at breakfast–and yes, I still get the paper versions. Because it’s no big deal if a little coffee spills on them.
Wayne Kemp wrote a great old song for Johnny Cash called “One Piece at a Time.” In it, Johnny sings of slowly piecing together his very own Cadillac using parts… Read more >
April 9, 2015 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Cadillac Tax, Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory Read more >
Defined benefit pension plan administrators: You might need to change your annual funding notice. The Department of Labor published a final rule in the Federal Register on February 2, 2015… Read more >
March 19, 2015 Defined Benefit (DB) Plans, DOL, Employee Benefits, ERISA, Multiemployer, Pensions, Regulatory Read more >
Are your employees asking you for documentation of their employer-sponsored health coverage in 2014? Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employers may voluntarily, but are not required to, provide this… Read more >
March 3, 2015 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory Read more >
If the Affordable Care Act were a celebrity, it would be that really big star you either love or hate—or maybe love to hate. Since 2010, ACA has commanded the U.S…. Read more >
January 22, 2015 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS In 2015, Affordable Care Act (ACA) transition relief allows applicable large employers (ALE) to avoid one of the ACA penalties (the one that could cost employers $2,000 per… Read more >
December 23, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act is big … and complicated … but there is another complicated act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), that health administrators… Read more >
November 18, 2014 Employee Benefits, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Mental Health Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS Updates: On November 14, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it was extending the deadline for submitting 2014 enrollment counts for the transitional… Read more >
October 21, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS Whose Social Security numbers must we report under the Affordable Care Act, and what if we don’t have all the numbers we need? Beginning in 2016,… Read more >
September 9, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave health plans an extraordinary amount of new reporting and disclosure requirements. However, one preexisting requirement (pun intended) will disappear beginning January… Read more >
August 13, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, HIPAA, Regulatory Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act changed our language as well as our health care system. Some of ACA’s key terms and phrases sound remarkably similar but have different… Read more >
June 20, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care Read more >