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With so much information flying around on the Affordable Care Act, it can be a challenge to determine what is correct. In an effort to clear up ACA confusion, here are a few facts that you may have seen misstated. Fiction: The out-of-pocket limits applicable to qualified high deductible health plans are the same as [...]
For decades, employers determined to get a handle on runaway health care costs have compared self-funding to their traditional fully insured plans. Many who have made the move have discovered that the opportunity for savings is just one advantage. Others include flexibility in plan design, access to plan and utilization data and the ability to [...]
Article from Forbes.com discussing healthcare's most vexing problem - controlling rising healthcare costs.
The days when employers worried about workers who lacked a home computer with internet access have come and gone. Today, more employers are concerned with how to enable their workers to make benefit elections on their smart phone or mobile device. It’s not surprising when you realize the speed at which the mobile revolution is [...]
A recently released study, based on claims data from 126,245 members participating in self-insured, employer-sponsored health benefit plans, reflected average annual per member cost savings of $1,157.91 for chronically ill individuals participating in a telephone-based chronic disease management program. The results of the independent study, recently published in "Population Health Management", showed 15% average savings [...]
With the costs of maintenance and specialty drugs skyrocketing, why would some employers with self-funded health plans not place prescription drugs under their plan’s stop-loss insurance?
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) can avoid paying the $2,000 per employee penalty for failing to offer qualifying health coverage by offering full-time employees a Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) plan. Offering the most basic benefits – MEC plans offer only the most basic level of benefits required under ERISA and [...]
States with the most workout minutes logged per week: California 87.4 Colorado 84.2 Washington 82.0 Oregon 79.5 Arizona 79.0 States with the least minutes per week: Rhode Island 49.9 Hawaii 49.4 South Carolina 49.1 Delaware 48.5 North Dakota 46.3 Clearly this has much to do with climate as well as the environment, access to parks [...]
"Doc merger reshapes Hartford's physician landscape" Article is by Matt Pilon, from Hartford Business.com, a publication of The Hartford Business Journal CMG CEO Dr. Jarrod Post will be Starling Physician's new chief medical officer starting Jan. 1. A merger of nearly 200 Hartford County doctors is all but complete. Rocky Hill's Connecticut Multispecialty Group (CMG) [...]
