28 Jun IRS Reporting: Now What?

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Original Post from UBABenefits.com By: Danielle Capilla, Chief Compliance Officer at United Benefit Advisors Applicable large employers and self-funded employers of all sizes have now completed the first round of required IRS reporting under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires individuals to...

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27 Jun Health Care Consumerism Is More Than A Benefit Design

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Original Post from BeneftisPro.com By: Steven Auerbach The shift to health care consumerism is well underway. Trends continue to point to increased financial responsibility for consumers with rising deductibles, increased consumer out-of-pocket responsibilities, and accelerated adoption of consumer-directed health care plans (CDHPs), health savings accounts (HSAs), and...

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22 Jun Many Patients Don’t Get Much Out of EHRs

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Original post benefitspro.com Most Americans appear to view electronic health records (EHR) as a welcome convenience, but not as a game-changing medical advance. That’s what one can glean from a recent survey of patients conducted by HealthMine. The poll of 500 insured adults found that 60 percent...

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21 Jun DOL Overtime Rule Will Impact Hospitality Industry

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Originally Posted by SHRM.org By: Allen Smith The hospitality industry will be hit hard by the Department of Labor’s updates to the overtime rule implementing the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), experts say. With high overhead costs and a low-profit margin, hotels and restaurants typically don’t have...

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20 Jun Extra, Extra! ACA Tax News, Read All About It!

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Original Post from UBABenefits.com By: Jennifer Kupper, In-House Counsel & Compliance Officer for iaCONSULTING, a UBA Partner Firm The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) has many tax provisions written within its 906 pages. I’ll give a brief overview of the taxes, and sprinkle...

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15 Jun 5 Things Employers Need to Know About Overtime Rules

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Original post benefitsnews.com With compensation taking up the biggest slice of the benefits pie, employers are paying close attention to the Department of Labor’s proposed changes to the overtime rules – expected to be released as early as this month – under the Fair Labor Standards...

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10 Jun Wellness Programs Benefit Employers, Employees

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Original post benefitspro.com Offering employee wellness programs isn’t just an exercise in altruism for employers. It pays off where most companies would value it most: the bottom line. According to Forbes, companies are jumping on the wellness program bandwagon right and left, to varying degrees. In fact,...

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09 Jun Fiduciary Rollout: DOL to Extend a Hand

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Original post employeebenefitadvisor.com WASHINGTON -- As the dust begins to settle after the Department of Labor issued its hotly contested fiduciary regulation, one of the key officials who led the rulemaking initiative says that he anticipates issuing clarifying guidance on an ongoing basis as industry feedback...

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07 Jun Study Suggests Plan Transparency Doesn’t Reduce Costs

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Original post benefitspro.com “Transparency” and “choice” are keywords associated with health plan consumers these days. But there’s no guarantee those key words will lead to the keyword phrase “lower health plan costs.” One survey of the employees of two large employers reports that, given transparency and choice, plan...

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02 Jun Remote Workers Are Happier

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Original post benefitspro.com People who work remotely are happier, according to a new survey conducted by TinyPulse, an employee engagement firm. The firm polled 509 U.S. workers who always work remotely about their job satisfaction and compared their responses to those of the roughly 200,000 U.S. employees...

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