While most businesses rarely get rebate checks from their group health insurer, this year may be different as insurance companies are expected to pay back record excess premiums, as required by the Affordable Care Act. The landmark insurance law requires that insurers...
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New Rule Allows Employers to Pay Workers to Buy Their Own Health Coverage
The Trump administration has issued new rules that would allow employers to provide workers with funds in health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) that can be used to purchase health insurance on the individual market. The rule reverses a long-standing part of the...
DOJ Files Brief Asking Court to Throw Out ACA
The stakes for the future of the Affordable Care Act just got higher after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief with a federal appeals court to strike down every facet of the landmark legislation. The DOJ’s filing in the case states that the law is...
Judge Shoots Down Association Plans
A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s rules for association plans, saying they are an attempt to allow employers to skirt their obligations under the Affordable Care Act. The rules that the Department of Labor finalized last year allow employers to...
MIBiz: Metro, Mercy move into direct contracting with employers for health care
Read Mark Sanchez's full article here. Excerpt from article: "Direct contracting between employers and so-called “centers of excellence” that excel in medical specialties such as cancer or cardiovascular disease increased to 18 percent last year from 12 percent in...
Proposed Rules Would Affect Prescription Drug Plans
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has floated proposed regulations that would affect drug benefits for group plans and association plans and attempt to reduce drug expenses for health plan enrollees and drug plans. While the rules seem to be focused on...
Regulators Take Steps to Help Grandfathered Plans
Regulators are in the early stages of creating rules that make it easier for health plans that were grandfathered in before the Affordable Care Act took effect to continue providing coverage. The number of workers enrolled in plans that were in effect before the ACA...
DOJ Tells Court to Nullify ACA; What’s Next?
After a period of relative stability, the future of the Affordable Care Act has once again been thrown into uncertainty. In a surprise move, the Department of Justice announced that it would not further pursue an appeal of a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Reed...
Vision Benefits Help Workers, Who in Turn Help You
EVERY EMPLOYER benefits from a healthy workforce. But many employers do not know that an affordable way to achieve this is with voluntary vision benefits which are a win-win for both businesses and their employees. Recent research shows that employers see average...
Employers More Confused about Coverage than Ever
One of the biggest challenges for employers who offer their workers health insurance benefits is that the majority of U.S. workers are really in the dark about how insurance works, according to a new survey. Despite employers' best efforts to provide as much education...
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(616) 344-6606
148 S River Ave Ste 300, Holland, MI 49423