Original Post from UBABenefits.com on June 28, 2016 By: Carol Taylor, Director of Compliance and Health Plan Collaborative, D&S Agency In the early 2000s, prescription costs were around 20 percent of total medical claim spend. This number stayed relatively unchanged for a number of years. Recently, this...
Released by the United States Department of Labor through The Federal Register on July 1, 2016. Effective August 1, 2016, the amounts for civil penalties will be adjusted as required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. The interim final rule made adjustments...
Released by the United States Department of Labor on July 11, 2016. Form 5500 affects us all and the Department of Labor is looking for your input on the proposed revisions to the form. Below you will find the proposed revisions and some details about them. The...
June was another quiet month for federal agencies in relation to employee benefits. A tri-agency proposed rule regarding expatriate health plans, excepted benefits, and essential health benefits was released. UBA Updates UBA's Human Resources department released a checklist and advisor on new OSHA requirements: OSHA Reporting Changes:...
Original Post from UBABenefits.com By: Nancy Bourque on June 16, 2016 Beginning in 2017, certain employers with as few as 20 employees at a single site will be required to electronically file information about employee injuries and accidents that occurred in the prior year. This means that,...
Original Post from SHRM.org By: Allen Smith Even if workers’ pay is higher than the newly raised exempt salary threshold, they still might not be exempt. That’s because the new overtime rule didn’t add any requirements to the duties tests but left the existing duties tests in...
Original Post from KHN.org By: Phil Galewitz On the day abdominal pain and nausea struck Jessica Christianson at the office, she discovered how far telemedicine has come. Rushing to a large kiosk in the lobby of the Palm Beach County School District’s administrative building where she works, Christianson,...
July's Dish is brought to you by ClearPath's own Denise Kestner! "Floridian by birth, Gator by the grace of God." Miami born and raised, Denise has over 23 years of HR experience. She can often be seen zipping around in her mini-van going to and from...
Original Post from BenefitsPro.com By: Nate Randall Throughout my career, I’ve had the good fortune to work for a variety of industry leading organizations from stratospheric startup Tesla Motors to Fortune 100s Safeway and Washington Mutual. I planted myself knee deep in managing, analyzing, and creating everything related...
Original Post from SHRM.org By: Kathy Gurchiek More businesses will be using workforce analytics over the next three years, especially to help with retention and recruitment, according to a new report published by the SHRM Foundation. For HR practitioners, it will be increasingly important to understand analytics and...