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 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 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 | Jun 28, 2023 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, HSA
Compliance Alert: HSA participants and high deductible health plans Late last week, the IRS published additional guidance modifying the COVID-19 coverage that high deductible health plans (HDHPs) can provide while maintaining their HSA-qualified status. This notice...
by The Lawyers | Jun 14, 2023 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
Compliance Alert: “Strong warning” – Fixed indemnity plans cannot be used to avoid taxation Over the past several years, the employer-plan marketplace has seen a rise in “fixed-indemnity wellness policies,” which promise to help both employers and...
