by Bret Brummitt | Sep 17, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
How Can an Advocacy Service Help Your Employees? Did you know health advocacy is a thing? There are many different ways we can all use a little help when it comes to using our insurance benefits or just simply navigating the overly complex healthcare system in...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 16, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Health Insurance
How do you know if your benefits broker is the worst? Here are five things to watch out for! 5. Acronyms, Acronyms, Acronyms Okay, we all fall victim to industry speak. Even worse though are the sycophants of an industry’s subculture that treat you like only the...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 15, 2023 | Employee Benefits
Target your Employee Communication to be “Street Smart” Every single year your employees get the pleasure to hear about a “Deductible” and “Co-Insurance”. They hate it. Seriously. They hate it. Even the most respectful employee...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 14, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Plan Design, Plan Design, TeleHealth
Measuring Success How do you define success for your benefits plan? How often do you clearly express your expectations? Do you start a conversation with “I believe” or “I know that”? Here’s the problem: Preparing for an insurance renewal is hard. Preparing to talk...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 8, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
What Didn’t You Accomplish Last Year? You say you had great intentions to launch a wellness plan? Oh, maybe that was a 401(k) or Profit-Sharing plan? Oops, I guess I didn’t hear that right–you just wanted to launch a Flexible Spending Plan? The...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 7, 2023 | Data Analytics, Employee Benefits
Entering data by hand isn’t just a hassle; it also hurts your company’s bottom line. Companies that rely on outdated models of data entry experience the pain of inefficiency in several ways. First, staff must re-key data into separate programs because the company’s...
by Human Resources | Aug 14, 2023 | Compliance, Human Resources, Labor Law, Texas Law Alert
The following changes to Texas employment law take effect on September 1, 2023. Texas Prohibits Hairstyle Discrimination Texas joins the growing list of states that prohibit discrimination based on hairstyle. The state’s employment discrimination law, which applies to...
by Lian Loop | Aug 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
The overlap and differences between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) are something we get asked about a lot. Our friends at BBP Admin provide a solid explanation of how to navigate them so please read on to learn more....
by The Lawyers | Jul 24, 2023 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
Compliance Alert: Proposed regulation issued about fixed indemnity plans The federal Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury recently issued a proposed regulation that would significantly change how many employer-sponsored hospital indemnity,...
by The Lawyers | Jul 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Compliance Alert: Guidance available through newly published set of FAQs In early July 2023, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury (the Departments) published a set of FAQs that clarify how certain surprise billing protections interact with...
