Tag: Healthcare

October 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employers are looking at several strategies to reduce health care benefit costs, but many are...

October 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation offers a profile of private exchanges for health...

September 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a notice regarding measurement methods for determining whether...

September 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More than 87% of employers surveyed indicated they have taken at least one action to...

September 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Twenty-eight percent of employers surveyed by Towers Watson said they had already extensively evaluated the...

September 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has added to the list of events for which employer...

September 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The time employers have to manage costs of their health programs to avoid an excise...

September 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Code section 6056, as enacted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), requires “applicable large employer...

September 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Webster Financial Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the health savings account (HSA)...

September 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) asks: “Does Household Expenditure Change...

September 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new private exchange from Independence Blue Cross offers coverage options for midsized and large employers.

September 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Respondents to a survey identified health as the most important factor for a happy retirement,...

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employer-sponsored health benefits are very similar in 2014 to what they were in 2013, according...

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early responses from a Mercer survey still in the field show employers are predicting that...

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published draft instructions for forms employers will use to...

September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail health insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, are dramatically changing the employer benefits environment, according...

September 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed its first lawsuit challenging an employer’s...

September 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An individual departing the workforce today will see out-of-pocket health care costs grow 7% annually...

August 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For four decades, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) has provided a...

August 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Hewitt is expanding the Aon Active Health Exchange to include more than just health...