Tag: Healthcare

Benefits | May 16th, 2011

Workforce Health a Higher Priority for Multinationals

May 16, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with rising health care costs and a growing concern over the health of their...

Compliance | May 15th, 2011

IRS Announces HSA Limits for 2012

May 16, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service has announced the 2012 inflation adjusted deduction limitations for annual contributions...

Benefits | May 12th, 2011

Employees’ Share of Health Costs at All-Time High

May 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The annual Milliman Medical Index found total health care cost for a family of four...

Opinions | May 10th, 2011

PPACA and Wellness Programs

May 10, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following PPACA, employers are even more interested in encouraging healthy behaviors and decreasing health care...

Compliance | May 9th, 2011

VT Lawmakers Approve Tax Conformity to PPACA

May 9, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vermont lawmakers have approved a bill that would enable employers to offer coverage to employees’...

Compliance | May 5th, 2011

Uninsured Can Move Forward in HCR Challenge

May 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has moved forward claims of uninsured plaintiffs in a challenge to the...

Benefits | May 4th, 2011

Workers Clueless about Retirement Health Care Costs

May 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Sun Life Financial Unretirement Survey suggests that over nine in ten American workers either...

Benefits | May 4th, 2011

Many Canadian Employers Don’t Follow Through on Wellness Strategies

May 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While 96% of Canadian employers have wellness initiatives or plan to introduce them, only 24%...

Compliance | May 3rd, 2011

Regulators Seek Employer Input on PPACA Provisions

May 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have requested public comment on issues relating to...

Opinions | May 3rd, 2011

How Do You Calculate the Small Business Tax Credit Under PPACA?

May 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PPACA added a new small business tax credit for employee health insurance expenses paid by...

Benefits | May 2nd, 2011

Study Says Wellness Programs Lower Health Care Costs

May 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new longitudinal study conducted among participants in Discovery Holding’s incentive-based wellness program, Vitality, indicates...

Benefits | April 29th, 2011

Recession Leads to Record Drop in Workplace Health Coverage: EBRI

April 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reports that the percentage of...

Benefits | April 29th, 2011

EBRI Finds Drop in Health Care Coverage during Recession

April 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New data shows that 2009 marked both the sharpest one-year decline in employment-based health coverage...

Reader Responses | April 28th, 2011

SURVEY SAYS: Should the Supreme Court Have Accelerated its Review of the PPACA?

April 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to bypass the lower courts and take up...

Benefits | April 27th, 2011

CDHP Enrollment Grew 22% in 2010

April 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The number of workers enrolled in Consumer-Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) grew by 22% in 2010,...

Products | April 27th, 2011

Aon Hewitt to Extend Health Care Exchange to Active Employees

April 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Hewitt has announced plans to offer a corporate health care exchange to employers nationwide,...

Products | April 26th, 2011

New Tool Helps Employers with Health Care Benefit Design

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nonprofit Center for Health Value Innovation (CHVI) has developed a new online tool to...

Opinions | April 26th, 2011

What About Dental and Vision Benefits Under PPACA?

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There still seems to be confusion about the applicability of the new PPACA amendments to...

Compliance | April 25th, 2011

High Court Denies Expedited Review of Health Care Law

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to bypass the lower courts and take up a...

Benefits | April 25th, 2011

Increased CDHP Use not Likely to Have Adverse Affects

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Researchers have found that in almost all cases, consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) benefit designs affect...