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Employers Rethink HDHPs as More People Struggle with Medical Bills

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As the number of employers offering high-deductible health plans continues growing, the spotlight recently has highlighted an inconvenient truth: some employees are going broke and filing bankruptcy because they cannot afford all of the out-of-pocket expenses and deductibles they must pay in these plans – just like the bad old days in the 1990s and […]

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DOL Employers Expect 6% Hike in Health Costs for 2019

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The IRS has released the inflation-adjusted amounts for 2019 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility provisions. For plan years beginning in 2019, the affordability percentage has increased to 9.86% (from 9.56% in 2018) of an employee’s household income or wages stated on their

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Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Break On Rising Prescription Costs Or a Cause of Them?

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In 2015, spending on prescription drugs grew 9%, faster than any other category of healthcare spending, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The report cited increased use of new medicines, price increases for existing ones, and more spending on generic drugs as the reasons for this growth. Increasingly, though, observers of

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I was recently invited to the Workplace Benefits Renaissance Conference in Atlantic City NJ to speak on one of the Increasing Sales Revenue track – Optimizing Enrollment & Improving Employee Engagement.   The whole panel – moderator Ron Kleiman and fellow panelists Rachel Pennington and Adam Maggio – gave diverse views about how to effectively deliver

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