As we get closer to 2022, plan sponsors are wondering what next year will mean for their employee benefits plans, especially group health plans. Health care costs are complicated, and… Read more >
Anne Newhouse, CEBS
November 22, 2021
Employee Benefits, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Insurance, Mental Health, U.S.essential health benefits, Health Care, health care benefits, health care costs, health insurance
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Employers providing health care benefits to their employees can choose one of two options: a fully insured health plan or a self-funded health plan. Although there are many similarities between… Read more >
International Foundation Staff
July 26, 2021
Employee Benefits, Employee Benefits Survey, Health Care, U.S.health care costs, self funded plan, self-funded health insurance plan, self-funded health plans, self-funding, self-insured plan, stop-loss insurance
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Over the past year, the International Foundation has surveyed U.S. organizations on three separate occasions to examine the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the most recent edition, respondents were… Read more >
Justin Held, CEBS
June 10, 2021
Coronavirus (COVID-19), Employee Benefits, Health Care, U.S.coronavirus and the workplace, COVID-19, health care benefits, health care claims, health care costs, mental health, prescription drugs, telehealth
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Notice 2021-31 which provides guidance for multiemployer plans and plan administrators regarding the new credit available to them for providing continuation health coverage… Read more >
Jenny Lucey, CEBS
June 9, 2021
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Coronavirus (COVID-19), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Multiemployer, Regulatory, U.S.American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, ARPA, COBRA, COBRA premium assistance, COBRA subsidy, Health Care, health care benefits, health care costs, health care plan, health coverage, health insurance, multiemployer health plans
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There’s no question that the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of virtual health care in Canada, but we’re now learning that it’s not just a transitional measure. A panel at… Read more >
Alyssa Hodder
May 19, 2021
Canada, Employee Benefits, Health Care, WellnessHealth Care, health care benefits, health care costs, health care plan, health care technology, telehealth, virtual care, virtual health, virtual mental health benefits
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The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to bring long-lasting changes to life in the United States, and those changes will be reflected in employee benefits. How COVID-19 could affect health, retirement… Read more >
Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS
February 17, 2021
Coronavirus (COVID-19), Defined Benefit (DB) Plans, Defined Contribution (DC) Plans, Dependent Care, Employee Benefits, Health Care, Multiemployer, Paid Leave, U.S.childcare, coronavirus, coronavirus and the workplace, COVID-19, defined benefit pension plan, defined benefit plan, defined benefit plans, emergency savings, employee benefit trends, employee benefits, future of work, health care benefits, health care costs, health coverage, health coverage status, mental health coverage, multiemployer defined benefit plans, multiemployer defined contribution plans, paid leave, retirement, retirement plans, retirement security, telemedicine
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Over the next ten years, health care spending in the United States is projected to increase at an annual rate of 5.4%. In response to the cost escalation, plan sponsors… Read more >
Justin Held, CEBS
January 27, 2021
Disease Management, Employee Benefits, Employee Benefits Survey, Health Care, Mental Health, U.S.Health Care, health care benefits, health care costs, health care plan, health care technology, health costs, health insurance, telehealth
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Unless they had multiple members who contracted COVID-19, many health plans may have experienced a temporary reprieve from rising health care costs as plan participants delayed care while the country… Read more >
Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS
June 4, 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19), Employee Benefits, Health Carecoronavirus and the workplace, COVID-19, health care costs
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On June 24, 2019, President Trump issued an executive order directing various federal agencies to develop new rules or regulations on improving price and quality transparency. As a result, on… Read more >
Anne Newhouse, CEBS
January 21, 2020
Employee Benefits, Health Carehealth care costs, health insurance, Transparency in Coverage
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If you watch television at all, you probably have a pretty keen awareness that there are all kinds of new and amazing drugs on the market these days. Some cure… Read more >
Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS
December 12, 2019
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Prescription Drugshealth care costs, lifetime limit, specialty drugs, stop-loss insurance
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