Tag: Healthcare

Benefits | June 8th, 2010

EBRI Sees Retiree Health Coverage Subsidy Cash Depletion

June 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The $5 billion set aside to fund an employer subsidy of early retiree health care...

Benefits | June 8th, 2010

Almost 1M Employees Able to Cover Adult Children Early

June 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by Hewitt Associates finds that approximately 950,000 workers will be able to...

Opinions | June 8th, 2010

Digging Deeper Into the New Adult Children Coverage Rules

June 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two weeks ago this column addressed new regulations related to coverage of adult children to...

Products | June 3rd, 2010

Mercer Offers New Enrollment Solution to Small Employers

June 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer has announced a new solution that provides online benefits enrollment services for small employers,...

Benefits | June 2nd, 2010

HR Takes on Health Claim Help Responsibility

June 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The majority of human resources professionals recently polled agreed with the notion that they have...

Benefits | June 2nd, 2010

Administration Urges High Court to Leave SF Health Law Ruling Alone

June 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Obama administration has reversed course in a long-running legal battle over a controversial San...

Compliance | June 2nd, 2010

Court Upholds COBRA Benefits for Mooning Nurse

June 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has upheld a determination from the U.S. Department of Labor that a...

Opinions | June 2nd, 2010

What Employers Are Eligible for the Health Insurance Tax Credit?

June 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have lots of issues to deal with - but perhaps none looms quite...

Products | June 1st, 2010

Assurant Adds Eye-Care Plan

June 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Assurant Employee Benefits has announced an offering in collaboration with VSP Vision Care, an eye-care...

Products | May 27th, 2010

ING Drops Maximums for Small Businesses’ Health Plans

May 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING's U.S. Employee Benefits business announced it will offer unlimited annual and lifetime maximum stop-loss...

Products | May 26th, 2010

Sun Life Unveils Unlimited Stop-Loss Policies

May 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Employee Benefits Group division of Sun Life Financial will provide unlimited lifetime maximums for...

Products | May 26th, 2010

Calculator Adds Up Cost of Employer Health Care Mandates

May 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors struggling to estimate the potential costs of new mandates under...

Benefits | May 25th, 2010

Govt. Argues for Dismissal of VA Health Reform Suit

May 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Obama administration has argued in court papers filed in the state of Virginia’s health...

Benefits | May 25th, 2010

J.P. Morgan Finds Contributions to HSAs Getting Higher

May 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - J.P. Morgan’s HSA Program Snapshot finds 45% of health savings accounts had balances over $1,000...

Benefits | May 25th, 2010

Employers See More Cost and Less Benefit from Health Care Reform

May 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Few employers believe that the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will...

Benefits | May 25th, 2010

Early Retiree Health Subsidy Program Take-up Could be High

May 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –Most companies that offer pre-65 retiree medical benefits intend to apply for the Early Retiree Reinsurance...

Opinions | May 25th, 2010

Does the PPACA Apply to Dental and Vision Plans?

May 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have lots of issues to deal with - but perhaps none looms quite...

Compliance | May 24th, 2010

HSA Limits Stay the Same for 2011

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has announced that 2011 inflation adjusted amounts for Health Savings Accounts...

Benefits | May 24th, 2010

Most Using Employer Health Care Plan to Continue

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Most U.S. workers who use employer sponsored health care coverage plan to continue to do...

Deals and People | May 24th, 2010

Mercer Adds MD to Global Health Management Team

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robert Allen, MD, has joined Mercer’s Global Health Management team, part of Mercer’s global Health...