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In this month's EBN, contributor Karin Landry outlines how the current recession may present an opportunity for benefit managers to consider turning to captives to reduce benefits costs and manage risk.
A week ago today, some employers cringed as Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) introduced the Employee Free Choice Act in the House and Senate (known in less-approving circles as "card check").
I'm not a fan of cannoli myself, but EBN Contributing Editor Karrie Andes sure is, and wants to share it — so to speak — with you, her benefits peers.
Stay tuned plan sponsors and providers. Fresh off the news that Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) was taking up legislation on 401(k) fees, here is more legal froth on fees reported by colleagues at EBN sister publication Money Management Executive:
Psst! PBMs don't want you to know about a class-action settlement involving prescription medicine pricing could result in drug-spend savings of 0.7% to 1.6% for plan sponsors. (Every penny helps these days, right?)
In what may be another sign of the (recession) times, CVS has announced it will close 90 of the retail MinuteClinics located in its stores until next flu season, citing an effort to align clinic open hours with consumer demand.
Aetna this week released results from a six-year study of its consumer-driven health plan offerings that show the plans saved employers saved millions and empowered consumers to seek more preventive care and routine screenings, use generic prescriptions and visit the ER less often.
EBN's 22nd annual Benefits Forum & Expo will be held Sept. 13-15 in Atlanta, and we have a peach of a program lined up for you, including an expanded agenda and two dynamic keynote speakers.
The folks at RescueTime, a firm producing a software tool to help employers make workers spend their time and attention more effectively, estimate that daylight savings time, which began last Sunday costs employers — ready for this? — $480 million in lost productivity. Yes, million, with an "m."
Although survey results show employers forecast that "the pace of layoffs may be slowing from the staggering highs of the last few months, … there will certainly be more to come," admits Kathryn Yates, global director of communication consulting at Watson Wyatt. "While employers continue to make…
In a "Five Minutes With …" podcast, Maria Henderson, founder of HDM solutions and chair-elect of the Certification of Disability Management Specialists Commission, spoke with EBN Managing Editor Leah Carlson Shepherd about the commission´s leadership awards for disability management and tips for employers…
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This month, EBN's Kathleen Koster spent "Five Minutes With …" Howard Bernstein, a labor and employment attorney at Chicago-based law firm Neal Gerber Eisenberg. Bernstein serves up some straight talk regarding HR policy changes expected from the incoming administration and how they will affect a company´s…
I'm in the Big Apple today for the Benefits Health Care NY Show & Conference, co-hosted by EBN and Flagg Management. I'm presenting this morning in a session with Sara Collins, assistant vice president at The Commonwealth Fund. We'll be taking on the hefty topic, "What's next for health care reform?"…
In my opinion she is "qualified" because of her state administrative and health insurance background. Whether she will be effective is another question. I would hope that she avoid the "rush" to push everyone into a new system but, instead, apply relevant data, varied expert opinions, and prudence to…
With less than a month to go before e-prescribing technology mandates for Medicare Part D plans become effective, some plans still aren't ready to comply, AIS Health reports.
Yes, I do think Sebelius is a good pick to lead HHS. Way back last year, I was hoping that she would be Barack's VP, so I'm happy to see her be appointed to such an important post.
In my opinion, the most important issue that has to be resolved is cost transparency. There is no other service or "purchase" that an employee makes that they don't know the cost up front, this includes prescriptions. There needs to be consumer input component also. Do you really think when Barbra…
In a "Five Minutes With …" podcast, Evan Inglis, chief actuary for the Vanguard Strategic Retirement Consulting group, talks with Associate Editor Lydell Bridgeford about the short- and long-term implications of the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act as it relates to pension funding relief for…