Health insurance

The departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services today published final rules amending the definition of excepted benefits to include certain limited coverage that wraps around individual health insurance.

Everyone knows healthier employees are more productive employees, and focusing on wellness can help achieve that goal. But there are two things vital to us all missing from the equation: vision and hearing.

Illinois’s remedy for the state’s worst-in- the-nation $111 billion pension-funding shortfall was disliked by lawmakers who voted for it, the new governor who inherited it and public employee unions who sued to void it.

The consultancy’s Web portal enables a variety of plans to be offered by employers, who are cutting back on benefits for retirees.

Companies that make data-driven decisions are more likely to be stronger performers than those that make more instinct-driven decisions.

It was just a year ago that VSP Global and Google, Inc. teamed up to offer Google Glass prescription lenses and frames at a subsidized price. But Google Glass’s announcement last week that it was halting sales of the product raises questions about VSP’s future role.

A possible model for PPACA state exchanges, VIRTUAL COMPARE shows how easily brokers can be included in the process.