HSAs

The looming Cadillac tax is causing companies to be cautious when it comes to contributing to workers’ health savings accounts.

Some organizations are deploying a strategy that reduces their HSA contributions in favor of employer-funded indemnity products, such as accident and critical illness insurance.

If your employer-sponsored FSA has a grace period, your employees have an extra two-and-a-half months (until March 15 for plans that ended Dec. 31) to spend FSA dollars from 2015.

If employers offer an HDHP, executives should be maxing out their HSA contributions, says Robert C. Lawton.

Providing employees with incentives for adopting new, healthier behaviors can control costs while improving the long-term health of the workforce.

Providing employees with incentives for adopting new, healthier behaviors can control costs while improving the long-term health of the workforce.

If employers offer a high deductible health plan, all executives should be maxing out their contributions to their health savings accounts, says Robert C. Lawton. Here’s why.

Workers need help understanding how and why to prioritize contributions to a health savings account.

Health savings accounts help workers save for healthcare expenses in retirement. Employees who are eligible to contribute to an HSA should max out those contributions before putting money away in their 401(k) plan, says retirement plan consultant Robert C. Lawton. Here’s why.

Many new health savings account holders don’t understand how to make the most of their accounts. Now is the time to guide them in the right direction.