Tag: Healthcare

October 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – HR 360 has released an updated version of its 2012 Employee Benefit Plan Compliance Calendar.

October 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Health benefit plan cost trend rates for 2013 are...

October 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In 2012, U.S. companies and their employees saw the lowest health care premium rate...

October 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The percentage of employees enrolled in high-deductible health care plans has jumped over the past...

September 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty-four percent of CFOs in the U.S. do not foresee any changes in the...

September 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Overall claim costs in employer-sponsored health plans will continue to increase in the high single...

September 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The uninsured rate for working-age Americans ticked down in...

September 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Aon Hewitt has launched a fully insured multi-carrier corporate health care exchange, with 100,000 employees...

September 26, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Most employers are considering implementing retiree health care strategies that open access to the individual...

September 26, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. health care spending grew faster than expected among those with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) in...

September 26, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When the employee portion of the Medicare Tax increases by 0.9% in 2013, does the...

September 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Open enrollment is an optimal time to distribute federal notices at once rather than throughout...

September 20, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – David Schweihs will rejoin Mercer as part of its new Analytics and Measurements Solution group...

September 20, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Do the estimates of income replacement in retirement take into consideration the single biggest cost...

September 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) have surpassed health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to become the second-most...

September 14, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) presents challenges for employers with part-time workers.

September 12, 2012 - In our last column, we noted that many plan sponsors had been waiting for the Supreme...

September 11, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A preview of Mercer’s annual health benefits survey forecasts employers’ health care costs will increase...

September 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Despite...

September 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Most employers that have analyzed the financial impacts of their wellness...