How would you like your company to make headlines for saving one million dollars in medical costs while improving employee benefits? It happened to Dynamic Dies, Inc., as explained Monday at the 20th Annual Benefits Management Forum & Expo by Jill Kopanis, the company's Corporate Human Resource Director.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity was acting within its authority when it issued regulations that would allow employers to coordinate retirement benefits with eligibility for Medicare without violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
The number of Americans covered by high-deductible health plans that are offered in conjunction with health savings accounts (HSAs) rose 43 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to a report by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), an industry group.
The percentage of large employers offering a consumer-directed health plan grew from 33 percent in 2006 to 38 percent in 2007, but employee enrollment remains low, at 8 percent and only one percentage point higher than in 2006, according to annual survey conducted by Watson Wyatt Worldwide and the National Business Group on Health.
The head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is calling on employers to commit to four goals for providing more information on healthcare quality and costs of services.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has released guidance addressing many of the questions it has most frequently received on health savings accounts (HSAs) since the agency issued earlier guidance.
