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Need to advertise your benefits’ value? Try benefit statements! (advert.)
Ad campaigns are expensive, but BeneCom’s benefit statements are an economical promotional tool you can use to "advertise" the value of your benefits – value that’s often ignored. So, discover BeneCom’s impact on your benefits, not your budget!
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[Guidance Overview]
Establishing an External Health Benefits Claims and Appeals Process
"Plan sponsors of fully-insured plans should confirm that the insurer will meet the new requirements for external claims procedures by the deadline. If the policy year for your insurance is different than the plan year, you should determine what date the new requirements will apply and coordinate the compliance date with your insurer."
(McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP)
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Mercer Predicts HSA and High-Deductible Plan Limits Will Go Up
"The predicted change for HSA contributions is 1.6 percent for both individuals ($3,100 in 2012 vs. $3,050 in 2011) and family coverage ($6,250 in 2012 vs. $6,150 in 2011). For high-deductible health plans, Mercer anticipates the out-of-pocket maximum will jump 1.7 percent for both individuals ($6,050 in 2012 vs. $5,950 in 2011) and family coverage ($12,100 in 2012 vs. $11,900 in 2011)."
(Workplace Management: free registration required)
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Complete Benefits Law Guidance from Law Journal Press (advert.)
The nation's workforce and health care system are constantly evolving and so are the legal issues. Law Journal Press helps you handle any benefits law question with up-to-date, authoritative books on all aspects of the field.
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Pay or Play? How Health Care Reform Changes the Game for Employers (PDF)
"Numerous business articles, editorials, and op-eds have made [the prediction that employers will terminate their health insurance coverage for employees]. [This analysis] however, shows that employers are more likely to increase employee premiums than terminate coverage entirely."
(Benefits Compliance Advisory)
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McGuireWoods Healthcare Reform Guide Updates
This edition covers: Postponed Deadline for Insured Group Health Plans to Comply with Nondiscrimination Rules; Virginia Seeks Direct Review of PPACA; Florida District Court Grants Justice Department Stay on Ruling Declaring PPACA Unconstitutional; and, Progress Made Toward Repeal of New 1099 Reporting Rules, But Future Still Uncertain.
(McGuireWoods LLP)
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Women Feel Guilty About Work-Home Intrusion, According to Study
"Women are more affected than men by the intrusion of work into their home-life through e-mails, phone calls and texts and report higher levels of psychological distress, according to new research."
(Thomson Reuters via Employee Benefit News; free registration required)
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Employees Value Wellness Programs at Work (PDF)
"About two-thirds (64%) of employees surveyed by OptumHealth say their company is placing the same amount of importance today on employees taking steps to be healthy as it has in the past."
(Employee Benefit News; free registration required)
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A Digital Insurance Health Care Reform Handbook for Employers
"This handbook highlights the areas of health care reform that most impact employers. The guide includes some basic questions and answers to help employers prepare for the upcoming changes, take advantage of new benefits and tax credits and plan for new requirements."
(Digital Insurance)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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Desperate Techniques Used to Preserve the Myth of the Overcompensated Public Employee
"Efforts to roll back public sector wages and benefits and collective bargaining are under way in many states, with proponents claiming that overpaid public sector workers are a drag on state budgets. Our widely disseminated research refuting that claim has been targeted by critics. But as this paper shows, the criticisms leveled against our analyses of public employee compensation are themselves unsound. This paper responds to the criticisms that suggest our results are biased . . . ."
(Economic Policy Institute)
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Companies Might Rethink Benefits for Same-S.ex Spouses
"Technically, [the administration stance] means the Internal Revenue Service will still not permit the tax benefits enjoyed by opposite-se.x spouses to be available to same-s.ex spouses. And employers will still have a basis for denying access to most benefits to same-s.ex spouses."
(cfo)
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Job Tenure and the Effects on Benefits
"There's nothing wrong with jumping around to find a better fit, a bigger salary, a more prestigious title. But doing it too often can put your retirement -- and other benefits -- at risk. If you're one of the people who changes companies every few years . . . here are the benefits that may be affected, and what you can do to minimize the damage . . . ."
(Richmond Times-Dispatch)
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No Texas Lawmaker Immunity as Some Public Employee Benefits Are Cut
"[Texas state legislators] already trimmed their regular pay, in a roundabout way. Their health benefits work just like those for other state employees, which means lawmakers shoulder the same added costs and/or lowered coverages they impose on state workers. Their retirement benefits -- arguably the most lucrative benefit available to a state legislator in Texas -- probably won't change."
(The New York Times; free registration required)
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Press Releases
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