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Four Key Ingredients to High-Value Health Care

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

06 Apr 2018

What’s the best recipe for making sure your plan participants are receiving high-value health care? The old cookbook called for health plan sponsors to focus on getting the cheapest health care possible and using their leverage to convince providers to offer a […]

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Long-Term Care Insurance—Ripped From the Headlines

Justin Held, CEBS

14 Mar 201814 Mar 2018

Long-term care insurance has long been a staple of employee benefit offerings. While not typically a “headline-grabbing” benefit, these plans have received increased attention. What is a long-term care insurance plan? How commonly are these plans offered? Why is this topic trending […]

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So, Your Employee Received an ACA Premium Tax Credit . . .

Lois Gleason, CEBS

20 Dec 201716 Nov 2018

Sometimes your employees make mistakes. Obtaining a premium tax credit on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange could be one they’ve already made. Why does this matter? If the employer is an applicable large employer (ALE), generally one that employs 50 or […]

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Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Workplace Injuries

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

21 Nov 201721 Jan 2019

Private employers reported 2.9 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2016, and it’s likely that some of those employees received prescriptions for an opioid to manage their pain. In fact, research shows that workers’ compensation insurers spend about $1.54 billion annually […]

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Talking Benefits Podcast Episode 11: Never a Dull Moment

Staff

17 Nov 2017

News, news and MORE NEWS! The fall months have brought an exhausting amount of ACA news as well as tax reform bills from the House and the Senate, so we’ve got you covered. The Talking Benefits podcast has a rundown of everything […]

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Employee Benefit To-Dos, After I Do: Post-Wedding Checklist

Justin Held, CEBS

18 Oct 2017

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something . . . that I know we’re going to forget! Checklists upon checklists accompany the big day, and I can relate. So can my colleague, Anne Patterson, here at the International Foundation—We both got hitched […]

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6 Tips to Swap Employee ACA Confusion With Health Benefits Appreciation

Lois Gleason, CEBS

17 Oct 2017

Are your employees upset and confused about Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual marketplace headlines? In the past month they may have heard about large increases in ACA individual exchange premiums, health insurers pulling out of certain U.S. counties, reductions in mandatory coverage […]

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Talking Benefits Podcast Episode 10: Please Hold

Staff

13 Oct 201713 Oct 2017

Benefits news has been far from static in the past few weeks. After a month buzzing with activity and few definitive answers, news broke late Thursday with two new announcements from the White House impacting the future of ACA. Listen to today’s […]

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Five Proposed Health Savings Account (HSA) Changes

Guest Contributor

22 Aug 201722 Aug 2017

Republicans in Washington, D.C. have been busy this year, attempting to pass substantial health care legislation. We’ve watched each of the following slip away: the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA), Sen. Rand Paul’s […]

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Put a Ring On It or Lose Domestic Partner Benefits

Staff

01 Aug 201709 Aug 2018

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, a growing number of employers are requiring same-sex couples to marry to receive health care benefits. For many employers, domestic partner benefits were a way to provide equal coverage to employees […]