Employer Mandate Penalty: How to Avoid it

Employer Mandate Penalty: How to Avoid it

The Employer Mandate (also known as the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment) is the Health Care Reform provision that requires all employers with 50 or more full time equivalent employees to offer a certain level of health insurance coverage at an affordable rate...
Advantages of Voluntary Benefits

Advantages of Voluntary Benefits

Employees generally recognize that you don’t have an unlimited budget for all forms of compensation, including employee benefits. And in recent years most have grown accustomed to the necessity of sharing more of the financial burden of health benefits. So if...

Measuring Wellness Program ROI

Wellness programs are increasingly popular with employers and employees. But employers should not necessarily expect to get the spectacular returns on investment (ROI) that many studies of health promotion programs claim to deliver. When measuring wellness program...

Leave Administration Best Practices

If not managed effectively, an employee’s absence from work – regardless of how short and temporary it may be – can strain resources and morale. Whenever an employee plans to or unexpectedly needs to take time off, these leave administration best...
HSA Requirements for Employers

HSA Requirements for Employers

The pace of Health Savings Account (HSA) formation has picked up. A survey by the industry group “America’s Health Insurance Plans” (AHIP) found 28 percent of the nearly 400,000 HSAs in existence at the end of 2012 were established that same year. In...
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