Essential Health Benefits (“EHB”) is a set of health care service categories that must be covered by certain plans, starting in 2014*. Starting with plan years or policy years that began on or after September 23, 2010, health plans can no longer impose a lifetime dollar limit on spending for these services. All plans, except […]
We recently hosed an educational webinar conducting a “Postmortem” of 2012 Open Enrollment effectiveness and compliance strategies. Expert speaker, Attorney Patrick Haynes reviewed Communication and Enrollment strategies and walked Employers and Plan Sponsors through a checklist of Open Enrollment and compliance requirements. The webinar covered a variety of important issues, including: * Required ERISA, PPACA, […]
We’ve been blogging for several months now at AP Benefit Advisors about group health, compliance, benefits administration, employee communications, and other issues highly relevant to business operation in the 21st century. Moving into 2012, we thought it would be a good idea to share some of our more popular blogs to gain some perspective on […]
Join us for this complimentary, educational webinar as we conduct a “Postmortem” of your 2012 Open Enrollment effectiveness and compliance strategies. Expert speaker, Attorney Patrick Haynes will review Communication and Enrollment strategies, and walk Employers and Plan Sponsors through a checklist of Open Enrollment and compliance requirements. Highlights of the webinar will include: Required ERISA, […]
Increasingly, employers are looking to data analysis and predictive modeling to identify and understand the health factors driving the cost of their health benefits program. With approximately 75% of health care cost attributable to people with chronic diseases, and the extensive body of evidence attributing chronic disease to lifestyle factors such as smoking, poor eating […]