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Enhance Your Corporate Culture with Employee Benefits

Company culture has been studied to better understand how a company can consciously create a workplace where employees will thrive. This Insight discusses the powerful role that employee benefits can play in attracting and retaining talent.

Jeffrey Slay

Genetic Testing: Should it Be Part of Your Employee Benefit Plan?

Explore the benefits and impact of genetic testing on employers and employees, including information on how to manage costs through data utilization, as well as a discussion about possible problems, including false positives and discrimination.

High Prescription Costs: Is a Cure On its Way?

This insight discuses the current state of prescription drug costs, and addresses possible solutions, from legislation to prescription benefit managers.

Compliance Alert: Departments Adopt Non-Enforcement Policy on Drug Manufacturer Coupons

In this compliance alert you will find an overview of the FAQ, information on the non-enforcement policy, and insight into the impact on employers.

International Benefits Update – Q3 2019

This International Benefits Update covers global issues related to reform, pensions, leave, and contributions.

HR Best Practices for Employee Communication and Engagement

Employee engagement is a hot topic, primarily because workers are feeling less engaged in today’s workforce. Here are the best practices for engaging employees through a variety of channels.

Why You Need a Leave Management Program

This Benefits Insight discuses the critical nature of leave and strategies for managing it.

Compliance Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2020

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2019-29, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2020 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is "affordable" for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility provisions and premium tax credit program.

Compliance Alert: IRS Expands HSA Preventive Care Safe Harbor to Include Chronic Conditions

On July 17, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2019-45, which expands the definition of preventive care benefits that can be provided by a high deductible health plan (HDHP) to include certain chronic conditions. As guidance in the Notice may be relied upon immediately, this alert covers an overview of it and its projected impact on employers and plan participants.

Insights | Articles

Genetic Testing: Should it Be Part of Your Employee Benefit Plan?

High Prescription Costs: Is a Cure On its Way?

Compliance Alert: Departments Adopt Non-Enforcement Policy on Drug Manufacturer Coupons

International Benefits Update – Q3 2019

HR Best Practices for Employee Communication and Engagement

Why You Need a Leave Management Program

Compliance Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2020

Compliance Alert: IRS Expands HSA Preventive Care Safe Harbor to Include Chronic Conditions

Point Solutions: An Emerging Industry and Diabetes

Medicare: Are Your Employees Ready for Retirement?

Compliance Alert: Executive Order Encourages Transparency in Pricing and Expanding Consumer-Directed Arrangements

Compliance Alert: Final Rule Released on Individual Coverage and Excepted Benefit HRAs