High-deductible health care plans with health savings accounts (HSAs) continue to gain steam, but without careful attention, poor savings habits can undermine an employer’s best intentions, experts say. In a... Read more →
When it comes to benefit compliance, it’s not your father’s workforce anymore — it’s your mom’s, too. The political storm over the Obama administration’s rule on birth control tops a... Read more →
Ask the HR directors of companies without a wellness program why the businesses haven’t taken the plunge, and you’ll likely get a mix of answers. The challenges of keeping employees engaged and the time... Read more →
The federal government continues to tweak the rules regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), giving employers another reason to carefully review their leave policies. Most recently, the Department of Labor... Read more →
Like a groundhog in February, employers and HR managers can’t poke their heads over a cubicle wall without seeing the long shadow of growing health care costs stretching from their workforce. But unlike the... Read more →
Final versions of benefits-related rules have been flying out of federal agencies in the early weeks of 2012, with more expected to come over the next few months. One of the hottest compliance topics to emerge from... Read more →
On the same day that they released final regulations on the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (see our recent Compliance Alert on SBCs), the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the... Read more →
New Year Brings Extra W-2 Duty for Many Although 2012 is just getting started, many employers are already looking ahead to next year for a change in Form W-2 reporting. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care... Read more →
More IRS Guidance on W-2 Reporting of Health Coverage Among the provisions contained in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a requirement that employers report, on each employee’s IRS Form W-2,... Read more →
Expert: CDHPs Can Succeed with Right Incentives More employers are betting that health plans with higher deductibles will take some of the sting out of soaring health care costs. New research by the Employee Benefit... Read more →