Preventive care is vital to keep your employees healthy. The more employees take advantage of available preventive care, the more cost-effective their care becomes. They stay healthy, you save on… Read more >
July 21, 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Communication, Employee Benefits 0 Read more >
Employers and employees alike are well aware of the complexities involved in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The results from our most recent survey show that about… Read more >
July 11, 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Communication, Employee Benefits 0 Read more >
Have you ever tried to make sense of health care bills after a serious illness? Did you fantasize about marching into your insurance company president’s office, handing him or her… Read more >
June 22, 2016 Communication, Employee Benefits, Health Care 4 Read more >
Soon the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin notifying employers about employees receiving advance premium tax credits (APTC) or subsidies for 2016 on the ACA federally… Read more >
May 31, 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Communication, Employee Benefits, Health Care, Insurance 0 Read more >
If you are a baseball fan, you are probably familiar with this quote often credited to legendary baseball coach Sparky Anderson—”Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.” I’ve… Read more >
April 22, 2016 Communication, Employee Benefits 1 Read more >
In January I shared sample answers to seven questions your employees might have about their 1095 forms. The positive response showed a lot of you are searching for plain language… Read more >
March 4, 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Communication 2 Read more >
In a new International Foundation Benefits Communication survey, only 19% of employers reported their employees have a high level understanding of their benefits. When asked why this is, employers overwhelmingly… Read more >
February 29, 2016 Communication, Employee Benefits, Health Care 3 Read more >
Half of all organizations responding to the Benefits Communication Survey say the number of participant questions they receive regarding benefits has increased in the past two years. Adding to the… Read more >
February 25, 2016 Communication, Employee Benefits 1 Read more >
You may still be working on your 1095 forms, knowing the IRS gave you an extension until March 31 to send the 1095-Cs to employees, as required under the Affordable… Read more >
February 1, 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Communication, Employee Benefits, Regulatory 2 Read more >
Concerned about how aggressively many Illinois state employees had invested 457 plan assets, plan trustees decided in late 2014 on a bold move: Investments of all 53,000 participants would be… Read more >
January 27, 2016 Communication, Defined Contribution (DC) Plans, Employee Benefits, Retirement 0 Read more >