Healthcare

The ACA may be experiencing delays, but HITECH and other enforcement continues on schedule — with more auditors on the clock.

Just what is the role of an employee benefits broker in the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act?

2013 PSCA Retirement Plan Survey: Something to get worked up about.

New research out of the University of Minnesota analyzes employer data and the NAHU database to find a correlation between small businesses’ health coverage and costs and the number of brokers in a given area of the U.S.

“Health care reform is a shift to value-based care, rather than quantity of care,” one analyst says. “Any way Medtronic can help improve outcomes is generally the way health care is moving. The trick for them is to capitalize on that in the right areas.”

United Parcel Service Inc.’s decision to drop health benefits for 15,000 of its workers’ spouses may be a sign of the future, as U.S. businesses grapple with rising medical bills and the added burdens of the ACA.

Employee discount programs remain popular, but with a caveat.

By helping employees understand how their benefits work and how payment was applied to a particular claim, it’s hoped the tool will ease the administrative burden for employers, as well.

Here are some plan attributes generally felt to promote employee retirement readiness.

During Congress’s August break in 2009, the Tea Party helped demonstrate public anger towards the president’s health care legislation, but what has been there impact so far this August?