"Already permitting employees to take leave to care for a wide scope of family members, California now will allow them to use state family and medical leave and paid sick leave to provide care for a 'designated person.' The term has a slightly different meaning between the two laws. These changes ... take effect on January 1, 2023."  MORE >>

"[W]hile plan sponsors -- which include health plans, employers, labor unions, and health systems -- express high satisfaction with the item retail network options that meet the needs of members (4.5/5, 83% somewhat or very satisfied), they are notably less satisfied with their PBM's willingness to integrate with other pharmacy solutions (3.7/5, 52% somewhat or very satisfied)."  MORE >>

"Game rooms with foosball and ping-pong tables, bro-ish pleasures considered innovative during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, are dying out to make way for more socially evolved benefits ... Among the new concepts are mental health rooms, private spaces with a view to the outside where stressed employees can go to decompress. They might include soft furniture, lush plants and aromatherapy."  MORE >>

"[B]ecause children are now allowed to remain on their parents' health insurance plan until age 26, non-dependent children covered under a family HDHP may be eligible to contribute to their own HSAs."  MORE >>

"The number of accounts grew from 32.5 million to 33.9 million during the first half of 2022.... The average HSA has a balance of about $3,000.... About half of all HSAs have a balance of $500 or less (including nearly 20% of accounts with no balance) ... Through the first half of this year, 30% of all contributions ... came from employers.... Only about 7% (less than 2.5 million) of all HSAs hold invested balances."  MORE >>