Consider a Wellness Coach
Biometric testing has become the latest rage in wellness programs. If you’re unfamiliar with this, biometric testing (sometimes called biometric screening) involves measuring employees’ blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, and […]
Are You Benchmarking Your Health Plan Correctly?
Many employers benchmark their health plans against other employers with the same carrier or using nationally available data. But the benchmarking best practice is to compare your plan with others […]
Determining Minimum Value and Affordability
The IRS has released final regulations that address how wellness incentives or penalties, contributions to a health reimbursement arrangement, and employer contributions to a Section 125 plan are applied to […]
2015 Cost-of-Living Adjustments
Many employee benefit limits are automatically adjusted each year for inflation (this is often referred to as an “indexed” limit). The Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration have […]
Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Availability of Premium Tax Credits
Premium tax credits are only available to individuals who obtain health coverage through a Marketplace. A dispute has arisen as to whether the IRS has the ability to interpret PPACA […]
The “Play or Pay” Package
The employer-shared responsibility (“play or pay”) requirements do not apply to small employers and have been delayed until 2016 for employers with 50-99 employees. This raises the question – what […]
December Wellness Newsletter
QuickBites Weight-Loss Winners The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) studies people who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for a year or longer. More than 10,000 […]
Compliance Recap – November 2014
The month of November brought a new delay in reporting required from self-funded plans. It also brought several new notices and regulations that may affect sponsors of group health plans […]
UBA Releases 2014 Health Plan Survey Executive Summary
Recent survey data from the 2014 United Benefit Advisors Health Plan Survey, the nation’s largest health plan survey, shows that employers continue to shift a greater share of expenses to employees […]
Wellness While Away
We all have barriers that get in the way of leading healthy lives. As we enter the holiday season, they seem to pile up more and more. My colleagues in […]
