Compliance | May 12th, 2010 Keeping Up With Healthcare UPDATED May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – No matter how closely you’ve been following – or trying to follow –...
Benefits | May 11th, 2010 Being Healthy Could Cost You More in Retirement May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While logic would tell you that staying healthy holds down health care costs in retirement,...
Products | May 11th, 2010 Nippon Life Benefits Partners with Principal on Wellness Solution May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nippon Life Benefits has announced the availability of a comprehensive new wellness program to help...
Compliance | May 11th, 2010 Rules Bar Young Person Health Surcharges May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Insurers and plans are barred from tacking on a surcharge for health coverage for young...
Opinions | May 11th, 2010 What If Your Group Health Plan Discriminates in Favor of HCEs? May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have lots of issues to deal with—but perhaps none looms quite so large these...
Benefits | May 6th, 2010 Getting Employees Active in Health Matters Requires Support May 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Getting workers to become active health care consumers may require a spectrum of support including...
Products | May 6th, 2010 Hewitt Acquires Dependent Eligibility Audit Provider May 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates announced it has acquired HRAdvance Inc., a benefits dependent audit services company.
Benefits | May 4th, 2010 Feds Kick in $5B for Early Retiree Health Subsidy May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal officials are appropriating $5 billion to pay for employer subsidies for retiree health care...
Benefits | May 4th, 2010 HSAs not Enough for Retirement Health Care Savings May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While health savings accounts (HSAs) can be used to save for health care expenses in...
Products | May 4th, 2010 MetLife Announced Small Biz Dental Plan May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – MetLife has unveiled a dual-option dental offering for smaller businesses (25 to 499 employees).
Products | May 4th, 2010 New Web Site Supports Healthy Workplace Culture May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF) and the National Business Group on Health have introduced...
Compliance | May 3rd, 2010 IRS Published Average Premiums for Use in Employer Health Care Credit May 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Internal Revenue Service Revenue Ruling 2010-13 publishes the State average premium rates for the small...
Benefits | May 3rd, 2010 Unum to Cover Adult Children ahead of Reform Deadline May 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Unum officials announced that the company is beginning to comply with new health care reform...
Benefits | April 29th, 2010 Trade Group Announces More Insurers To Stop Dropping Coverage for Sick April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health insurers will no longer revoke customers' coverage once they get sick, as part of...
Compliance | April 29th, 2010 COBRA Subsidy Challenge Gets Derailed April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Washington has ruled that employees suing to force an employer to...
Benefits | April 28th, 2010 Insurers to Stop Dropping Coverage for Sick Ahead of Reform Deadline April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint have said they will stop dropping health coverage for customers after...
Benefits | April 28th, 2010 More Americans Worrying About Uncovered Med Expenses April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new survey finds uninsured medical expenses are frequently cited along with retirement savings as...
Benefits | April 28th, 2010 Adult Children Annual Health Coverage Price Tag: $350K to $750K April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New coverage available to children of employees up to age 26 under the health reform...
Products | April 27th, 2010 Marsh U.S. Consumer Introduces HSA Services April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh U.S. Consumer, a broker and administrator of affinity insurance and membership product programs, has...
Compliance | April 27th, 2010 IRS Issues Notice on Employer Health Coverage for Children under 27 April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service announced that the new health reform law immediately allows employers with...