Healthcare plan cost reporting: What’s hidden behind the wall
When a home’s circuitry goes bust, sometimes you have to rip into the walls to reveal the source...
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Medicare & COBRA: The most extreme of extreme sports
In the ERISA world, the collision of COBRA with Medicare is about as brutally taxing mentally as...
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Why ERISA loves Betty Crocker: Nothing good happens without a recipe
If ERISA compliance were as easy as baking a cake, the establishment of a plan document would be...
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Lifestyle accounts for the not-so rich and famous: Nice perk, but watch your step
Lifestyle spending accounts, or LSAs, might be the new darling of employee benefit offerings, but...
15:55
Broker and consultant disclosures: How much do you make?
At the end of last year, Congress passed a piece of legislation that addressed, among other...
17:58
How long? ERISA, record retention and the end of reason
One of the most vexing aspects of benefit plan sponsorship and administration is hanging on to...
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Telemedicine: Every rose has its thorns
Poison – the rock band, not the substance – reminded us that every rose has its thorns, and...
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Mental health parity: We all need a helping hand
Federal regulators seem to have little hesitancy in asking employer group health plan sponsors to...
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Dealing with the delta: Mandating and incentivizing the COVID-19 vaccine
With the COVID-19 delta variant on the rampage, the federal government and many private employers...
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Snake bit: More on the ARPA COBRA subsidies and how employers grab their tax credit
Hey everybody, the IRS is a little late to ARPA COBRA subsidy party, but it brought tacos! In...
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Voluntary benefits: Walking the ERISA tightrope
Voluntary benefits: Walking the ERISA tightrope
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There's a near $3 billion pot o' gold up for grabs for employers (and their employees) who...
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Chasing Jackie Robinson: Giving minority-owned benefits brokers a chance to play
Almost 75 years ago, Jackie Robinson became one of major league baseball’s greatest players, but...
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Wellness program regulations: The rollercoaster ride from hell
With all the new benefits compliance challenges employers face this year, Ed and Scott take...
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A storm is threatening: The excruciating run up to 2022
When it rains it pours…and whoa, is it raining this year! Not since…well, ever…have benefits plan...
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The (COBRA) world according to ARP: Welcome to the nightmare
The recent American Rescue Plan (ARP) resurrected an old nemesis for employers: Employer-fronted,...
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The (COBRA) world according to ARP: Welcome to the nightmare
The recent American Rescue Plan (ARP) resurrected an old nemesis for employers: Employer-fronted,...
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Shields are down, Captain! The limits of ERISA preemption
Employer group health plan sponsors are already choking on skyrocketing prescription drug costs,...
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Whoa, Nellie! What was THAT that just happened in Georgia? The Democrats — not to their surprise...
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Welcome to the club: A new way around the old MEWA problem
More and more employers are looking to provide health insurance to contractors, franchisees,...
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