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...
Tag: Healthcare
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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...
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PPACA and Wellness Programs
May 10, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following PPACA, employers are even more interested in encouraging healthy behaviors and decreasing health care...
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’...
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...
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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...
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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%...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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National Council on Aging Announces Health Management Workshop
April 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The National Council on Aging has announced an online workshop based on the Stanford Chronic...