BenefitsLink Health & Welfare Plans Newsletter
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Understanding U.S. Health Care Spending (PDF)
"Spending is highly concentrated among a relatively small portion of high-cost users, with just 5 percent of the population responsible for almost 50 percent of all spending. At the other end, half of the population accounts for just 3 percent of spending."
(The National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation)
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Health Care Costs Vary Widely by Provider, Study Shows
"That means patients who pay for a percentage of their care, instead of a co-payment, may end up spending hundreds of dollars more for a certain procedure than they would if they chose treatment somewhere else — often within a few minutes' drive."
(USA TODAY)
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Flexible Schedule Helps Keep New Moms in the Workplace
"'When confronted by one or more job demands, a flexible schedule provides working moms with alternatives for meeting those demands while caring for their newborns. When working moms are better able to control their work environment and adapt, work-related stress is less likely to become a family issue,'"
(HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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Missteps in Benefits Communications
"Communications that are infrequent and indecipherable are common mistakes HR leaders make when transmitting information about benefits packages to employees. Using more of a 'selling' approach while adopting multiple channels and targeted messages will help, experts say."
(Human Resource Executive Online)
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ESOP Valuation Issues
The NCEO's new issue brief presents articles on matters related to ESOP valuation, ranging from valuing SARs in an ESOP company to valuing an accounting firm's shares.
(National Center for Employee Ownership)
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[Opinion]
CIGNA Cash Balance Conversion Case: Justice Trumps Law 6-to-2 - But Who Got It Right?
"[H]as the Court now taken a second large step towards loosening the tight-knit set of enforcement provisions that Congress crafted with such precision in section 502 of ERISA, where it spelled out with exquisite care the permissible civil actions for enforcing the requirements of ERISA, specifying not just the harms proscribed and the corresponding remedies (e.g., recovery of lost benefits, injunctions, breach of fiduciary suits, clarifications of future benefits, other appropriate equitable relief), but also who may bring the remedial actions (for some causes, participants and beneficiaries, for others, the plan, for another, the Secretary of Labor along with participants, beneficiaries and fiduciaries)?"
(Alvin D. Lurie, Esq. published by BenefitsLink.com)
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Press Releases
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