Benefits Go Live in 2012
It was a fascinating year, as we shed light on the challenges and trends in Employee Benefits,...
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Feature
Andrew Nygard: Innovation in Healthcare
Dennis Toohey: Improving Health Plan Cost and MLR attainment with eProcurement
Tom Hamilton: Private Health Exchange; Fad or Real Solution Predictions for Employers in 2012
News and Insights
Deepak Padmanabhan: Summary of Final Rule on Medical Loss Ratio
Varun Bahl & Vaibhav Srivastava: Collaboration with Payers: Critical for Accountable Care Organizations
Editorial
Jonathan Edelheit: Benefits Go Live in 2012
Voluntary Benefits
Ted Williams: Getting Together: Inter-Company Marketing Group Finds Interest, Activity in Insurance Strategic Alliances
Rosalind Connor: New Resolve for the New Year Update your communication strategies for 2012
Pani Tademeti: NCFlex article for Voluntary Benefits Magazine, January 2012.
Beth Bierbower: New Communication Channels Can Help BAs Eliminate Voluntary Benefit Confusion
Scott Pedersen & Dean Cooley: Getting Desk-based Employees Standing Again: Establishing a Culture of Incidental Physical Activity in the Office Environment
Corporate Wellness
LeAura Alderson CEO, My Trainer Fitness Publishing: The Truth About Responsibility
Jim Pshock, Founder and CEO of Bravo Wellness and IncentiSoft Solutions, LLC: Wellness: Personal Freedom or Employer Mandate?
Carol Gugliemetti: New Year – New Wellness Plan
Joel Hershfield : A Healthy Government Workplace
Judi Hennebry: Mental Health As Part of Corporate Wellness Programs
Pete Thomas: Strategies for Success for Multinational Corporate Wellness Programs
JAY B. REA: The Role of Education in Health and Wellness Programs
Self Funding
Warren Lockie: Keep your Identity Safe in the New Year!
Bruce Weinstein: Consumption Plans That Work
Anthony “Tony” Boquet: The Baby Boomer Advisor as a Student
Anne Carpenter : HSAs Vs HRAs –Self Funding Byline
Darrell Schapmire, MS and James St. James, PhD: Visual Estimation of Effort: RIP
Editorial
Feature
Private Health Exchange; Fad or Real Solution Predictions for Employers in 2012
As the New Year kicks off and as we reflect back on 2011, there is little doubt that health insurance remains a principal issue for employers....
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Improving Health Plan Cost and MLR attainment with eProcurement
eProcurement: A uniform and centrally controlled paperless, web-based enterprise process that tightly integrates procurement,...
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Innovation in Healthcare
Healthcare Reform is underway in the United States. The rapid pace of this overhaul,...
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Collaboration with Payers: Critical for Accountable Care Organizations
This study intends to recognize the importance of Payer Collaboration for ACOs to gain the competitive advantage....
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Summary of Final Rule on Medical Loss Ratio
The Affordable Care Act enacted on March 23, 2010, requires that health insurance issuers provide rebates to enrollees when their spending for the ben...
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Getting Desk-based Employees Standing Again: Establishing a Culture of Incidental Physical Activity in the Office Environment
The typical full-time desk based employee will be required to sit at a desk for approximately 80,000 hours during their working life....
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New Communication Channels Can Help BAs Eliminate Voluntary Benefit Confusion
In today’s evolving health benefits industry, constant cuts are being made to help control costs. One area where resources are being added, however,...
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NCFlex article for Voluntary Benefits Magazine, January 2012.
With the current state of the economy, today’s employees find themselves depending on voluntary benefits more than anytime in recent history....
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New Resolve for the New Year Update your communication strategies for 2012
As 2012 is underway and employees’ new health benefits have taken effect, take a moment and reflect on this past year’s open enrollment efforts ...
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Getting Together: Inter-Company Marketing Group Finds Interest, Activity in Insurance Strategic Alliances
Two-thirds of life, health and benefits insurance market participants have added revenue to their firms in the past three years by engaging in strateg...
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The Role of Education in Health and Wellness Programs
All across America, corporations are implementing Health & Wellness programs, seeing the immense potential in having a healthier, more productive work...
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Strategies for Success for Multinational Corporate Wellness Programs
A Follow-up to the 3rd Annual Corporate Wellness Conference & 2nd Annual Global Benefits Conference’s 2011 Educational Session...
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Mental Health As Part of Corporate Wellness Programs
Today’s corporate wellness programs tend to focus on helping employees improve their health by creating clinical improvement initiatives around cert...
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A Healthy Government Workplace
Is that what people think when that phrase is mentioned? Why is that thinking so pervasive? Is the government the toughest fight yet for workplace w...
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New Year – New Wellness Plan
Personal aspirations aside, what are your resolutions in 2012 as a wellness manager? You probably have some of the same ones as previous...
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Wellness: Personal Freedom or Employer Mandate?
Several recent industry surveys confirm that employee wellness plan implementation is on the rise, particularly the use of “results-based”...
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The Truth About Responsibility
Responsibility gets a bad rap. “Who is responsible?”, is often accompanied by the familiar tune of “Not me.” ...
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Visual Estimation of Effort: RIP
The functional capacity evaluation (FCE) is the oft-overlooked segue to unwarranted diagnostic testing, extended and unnecessary treatment and indemni...
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HSAs Vs HRAs –Self Funding Byline
The past few years have been tumultuous for both the economy and healthcare industry – and it seems it is not over yet....
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The Baby Boomer Advisor as a Student
We are all familiar with the Baby Boomer Phenomenon and how it will affect the products and services needed for our clientele,...
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Consumption Plans That Work
As I write this article I imagine a think tank environment somewhere in Washington with some completely dissociated genius who will advise our lawmake...
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Keep your Identity Safe in the New Year!
Each year millions of people are the victims of identity theft in the United States. Unfortunately, these crimes are rising drastically due to the ec...
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