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Health & Welfare Plans Newsletter
August 6, 2021
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► 7 New Job Opportunities
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[Guidance Overview]
Medicare Part D Notices Must Be Provided by October 15
"Only individuals eligible for Medicare Part D have to receive the notice. However, most employers send the notice to all participants since they may not always know if someone is eligible for Part D (for example, a dependent who may be eligible because of disability)." MORE >>
HUB International
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[Guidance Overview]
New Hampshire Optional Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Coming in 2023
"The intent of this law is to leverage the purchasing power and economies of scale available to the state of New Hampshire by contracting with an insurance carrier or carriers to create an insured paid family and medical leave insurance (FMLI) benefit. The state's newly created FMLI Advisory Board ... is tasked with creating an RFP to be distributed no later than March 31, 2022, with an anticipated effective date of January 1, 2023." MORE >>
ABD Insurance & Financial Services
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Trends in Telemedicine Usage, 2016-2020
"Telemedicine visits spiked during March 2020, when states issued stay-at-home orders and health care providers suspended nearly all in-person outpatient services. While patients' use of telemedicine for visits decreased after April 2020 from their meteoric highs, there is evidence that telemedicine visits have remained persistently higher than their prepandemic trends. Telemedicine users tended to be older and disproportionately female relative to patients who do not use telemedicine." MORE >>
Employee Benefit Research Institute [EBRI]
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Last-Minute Creative Employee Perks to Incorporate This Open Enrollment
"While health insurance is the biggest budget item when it comes to benefits, there are plenty of low-cost, high-value benefits that go a long way in increasing employee loyalty and engagement during the benefits selection process.... Accident insurance ... ID theft protection ... Hearing aids/LASIK ... Telemedicine." MORE >>
OneDigital
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Benefits in General |
[Guidance Overview]
IRS Finalizes Mandatory 60-Day Postponement Period for Federally Declared Disasters
"The regulations [1] explain how the new mandatory 60-day postponement period is determined, and [2] clarify how the term 'federally declared disaster' is defined under IRC Sec. 165.... Ultimately, the final regulations didn't really change the type of disaster relief that will be available or how the public will learn of that relief." MORE >>
Ascensus
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Press Releases |
Sallus Retirement Selects Ubiquity Retirement + SavingsĀ® for Administration and Recordkeeping of its Pooled Employer Plan
Sallus Retirement, LLC
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Webcasts and Conferences (Health & Welfare Plans) |
Investing in Mental Health to Support Our Workforce
August 19, 2021 WEBCAST
Alliance for Health Policy
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FMLA Abuse by Employees Post-COVID: Required Policies and Protocols for Employers to Mitigate Risks
August 19, 2021 WEBCAST
HRM Insider
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Health Benefits Nation
October 25, 2021 in VA
Validation Institute
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IRS Seems to be Holding Employers to a Higher Affordability Standard Than the ACA Allows
Accord
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Health, Fringe and Leave Benefit Compliance Issues for 2022
Mercer
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Interim Final Rule Restricts Surprise Billing and Balance Billing
Nixon Peabody LLP
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