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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) Sponsored by: EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com (Click on company name or banner to learn more.)
Links to Items on Executive Comp, Benefits in General [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 (Post a Job | View All Jobs | RSS Feed ) 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 Handy Links:
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