Healthcare

The ERISA prohibition against such provisions don’t completely shield against participant conduct.

The share of Americans who work part-time for economic reasons, meaning they can’t find full-time jobs or because their hours have been cut, is 78% higher than in December 2007, when the 18-month recession began.

Supplemental disability income plans are so mainstream today they're thought of as plain vanilla. That’s all well and good until the other shoe falls. And it often does. When employers experience problems with existing voluntary disability plans, most of these issues can be traced back to when the plan was originally designed.

Guidelines on working with TPAs included.

No clear path to investment classes to which funds are flowing.

Most employers that sponsor self-funded group health plans, and insurers of fully-insured group health plans, will need to file and pay by July 31 their first round of federal comparative effectiveness research fees imposed under the ACA.

A $267 million computer system built by a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. is one of the most important determiners of whether the Affordable Care Act succeeds.

Employers should prepare for potential problems by drafting clear policies and thoughtful procedures on bring-your-own-device setups.

The Republican-led U.S. House voted to postpone two significant provisions of the Affordable Care Act Wednesday.

Premiums for health plans to be sold to the uninsured next year will be less costly than government analysts expected under President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, his administration will report today.