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| August 29, 2008 |
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[Guidance Overview] CMS Summary of Proposed Mandatory Insurer Reporting Requirements
Excerpt: "This issue summarizes information recently published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about the implementation of new data-collection rules that will affect employer-sponsored group health plans starting January 1, 2009." (The Segal Group, Inc.)
Healthier Consumers, Customers and Communities: The Hannaford Dynamic (PDF)
4 pages. Excerpt: "This issue of our 2008 Perspectives series looks at how Hannaford Supermarkets used a 'quality paradigm' -- focusing on quality care, efficiency, evidence-based medicine and cost control to dramatically lower its health care spend while lifting employee satisfaction and perception of quality." (Towers Perrin)
Health Plans Work to Counter Ailing Enrollment Among Small Employers Jolted by Economy
Excerpt: "Since September, the percentage of small employers that don't offer health coverage has jumped from 29% to 34%, according to the 2008 American Express OPEN Spring Monitor, a semiannual survey of small-business owners. And over the past six months, 20% of employers say they have been shopping for a new carrier to secure a better rate. Several publicly traded health plans say they are feeling the hit." (AISHealth.com)
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[Guidance Overview] Employee Benefits Update, August 2008 (PDF)
6 pages. The newsletter covers select compliance deadlines, retirement plan developments, and health and welfare plan developments. (Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.)
[Guidance Overview] Certain Year-End and Early 2009 Deadlines Approaching for Retirement and Welfare Benefit Plans
Excerpt: "As the end of the calendar year fast approaches, sponsors of retirement and welfare benefit plans should review those plans (including the administration of those plans) to make sure such plans are (or will be) in compliance with year-end and early 2009 requirements." (Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC)
Updated Data: Number of Deaths per 100,000, by State
Data may be viewed by bar graph, table, map, map and table. (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Newly Posted Events
Ask the Experts – A Roundtable Forum
in Illinois on September 25, 2008
presented by WEB - Chicago West
The Challenge of Obesity for Policy Makers: Recommendations for the Next Administration Webcast
Nationwide on August 29, 2008
presented by KaiserNetwork.org
Newly Posted Press Releases
Connecture, Inc. Named in Inc. Magazine's 5,000 Fastest Growing Private Companies for the Second Year
Connecture, Inc.
Benefits Roundtable Launches My Benefits Coach
Corporate Executive Board
New Book Released: "Fixing the 401k"
Greenspring Wealth Management
Newly Posted or Renewed Job Openings
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Pension Administrator
for Associated Pension Consultants
in CA
Plan Document Specialist
for American National Insurance Company
in TX
Client Relationship Manager
for Merrill Lynch
in CO, NJ
Regional Director
for The Newport Group
in CA
Qualified Plan Administrator
for DST Systems
in MO
Pharmacy Consultant
for Towers Perrin
in CA
Client Service Consultant - Regional
for The Standard
in CA
Client Service Consultant - Regional
for The Standard
in TX
Pharmacy Consultant
for Towers Perrin
in NY
Compliance Paralegal
for National Financial Partners
in TX
DC / 401(k) Compliance Consultant
for The Savitz Organization
in DE, NJ, PA
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- Using the Web for Employee Benefits Research (hypertext article)
- Employee Benefits Library
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