The Senate’s uphill climb continues for the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). Since returning from recess on July 4, the Senate has entertained new amendments and discussions of provisional changes thought to help the bill pass. The latest amendments introduce provisions to stabilize the marketplace, introduce choice and increase funds to help low income individuals.
On June 5, 2017, the United States Supreme Court ruled on the applicability of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to church-affiliated pension plans in the case…
As employees become more tech-savvy in addition to HR professionals wearing more hats that ever before, OneDigital recognized the need for an HR technology that could merge the two in…
There are countless new and innovative programs to assist employers in taking charge of their employee benefit risk and in providing good healthcare benefits for their employees. A great example…
Where a stock broker would say, “let your assets go to work for you”, healthcare analysts often make the same claim for your healthcare data. Every day, your employees are…
The Aetna/Humana and Anthem/Cigna mergers are officially dead. Through a series of articles over the past 18 months, we've been predicting the tough road to approval for both of these…
Accidental injuries can occur anytime for employees and their dependents. Despite providing on the job protection, what happens if an employee is injured at home, at the gym or even…
Over the past 60 years, a number of social, economic and political changes have contributed to the growing need for a full-time/dedicated HR professional to manage a number of duties.…
Prescription drug manufacturers have developed a perfect system to allow the pass-through of brand name drug price increases directly to plan sponsors (employers) via copay coupons, which effectively undermine insurer…