Obesity is unfortunately one of the most typical and most troublesome of the serious health conditions present among employees. Obese or overweight employees can negatively affect your company productivity levels, increase the costs of healthcare [...]

Ever since the Affordable Care Act (HCR) became law, the HCR W-2 reporting rules have confused even the best and the brightest. At one point, there even was a rumor that employer-sponsored health care coverage [...]

HHS Defers to States to Define Essential Health Benefits Beginning in 2014, all non-grandfathered health insurance plans in the individual and small group markets will need to offer a comprehensive benefits package, referred to as [...]

Now that you’ve launched a wellness program, it’s critical to know if your efforts are succeeding. To accomplish this, you must determine the return on investment (ROI). Calculating the ROI on Wellness will help quantify [...]

Mike Briare and Jaime Berry have spent nearly 20 years in the brokerage, consulting, health and technology arenas. As Principals for Tevis Insurance Solutions, they provide services to over 200 businesses, helping them to maximize [...]

HHS has released final rules around the medical loss ratio needs enforced through the healthcare reform law. The MLR needs grew to become effective on Jan. 1, 2011. They might require medical health insurance companies [...]

Trends in Employee Benefit Offerings Offering a benefits package that balances cost and value, particularly in this uncertain economic and legislative time, is a perennial challenge. The results from a recent Society for Human Resource [...]

As we mentioned in our Memorandum 2011-10 (November 17, 2011), the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco, seeing an apparent loophole in its attempts to provide health care expense assistance [...]