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Employee Benefit News for School, City and County Employers

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Understanding Life Continuation Options – Portability and Conversion

Updated May 13, 2024

Many schools, cities, and counties offer a Conversion and/or Portability feature within their group life insurance plans. This allows employees whose group term life insurance...

Hope for WI Cities Struggling with Unfunded Retiree Health Liabilities

In the 1970s-1980s, most Wisconsin cities began offering to pay all or some of their retiree’s health insurance benefits post-employment. Some organizations allowed employees to exchange...

How Physician Quality Data Impacts Your Health Plan Costs

Please note that Grand Rounds combined with Doctor on Demand and are now known as Included Health.

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5 Things to Review Before Changing Life or Disability Insurance Carriers

At some point in time, you may have to change life or disability insurance carriers for better rates, plan design, or customer service. To ensure that no employee falls through the cracks during the...

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For Every $1 Invested in this Benefit*, You Could See a $1.45 ROI

What if you could offer your employees a free service that would help you reduce your healthcare claims and help them detect disease early, when it’s more treatable and less costly? In fact, a study...

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New Affordable Care Act Benefit & Payment Parameters for 2019

The Department of Health and Human Services released its final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2019. This final rule describes benefit and payment parameters under the Affordable Care ...

PCORI Fee Deadline July 31st

If your health plan is self-funded, the deadline to pay your annual PCORI fees is July 31, 2018. You should use IRS Form 720 for reporting.

Why 3-5 Year Strategic Plans for Health Benefits is Trending

With health insurance increases, schools, counties, and other governmental employers are continually looking for ways to contain their costs. Traditionally, public sector employers took a tactical...

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IRS Announces Increases to HSA & HDHP Contributions for 2019

The IRS has recently announced the inflation-adjusted contribution limits for health savings accounts (HSAs) and high deductible health plans (HDHPs) will increase for 2019.

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Alert! HSA Family Coverage Contribution Limit Changed... Again!

Last week, the IRS made another change to the 2018 family HSA (Health Savings Account) contribution limit. This change modifies their March 5th directive.