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To say the the Affordable Care Act is keeping employers on their toes is a bit of an understatement. Understanding health care reform — and getting compliant — is a significant undertaking for many organizations.
Onsite care clinics, if designed and managed appropriately, have the potential to reap major benefits for employers.
Your middle-aged workforce — while rich in experience, energy, and industry know-how — slowly is losing a quality-of-life battle. Back health starts to slide after age 35, and it happens to everyone. There are strategies, though, to lessen discomfort and head off major problems.
It’s hard to argue against the virtues of employee self-service, with benefits such as:
Along with changing the face of health benefits, the Affordable Care Act also offers whistleblower protection to employees.
The IRS recently issued the revised IRS Form 720 (Quarterly Federal Excise Tax Return) and instructions for the PCORI fees. For calendar year plans, this form must be filed by July 31 for the plan year ending in 2012.
The din of machinery fills my ears, even when obstructed by earplugs. Above me, pipes soar stretching, twisting, meeting, turning. I follow a large white tube with a finger stretched to the sky. My eyes and feet follow it while my body is carried along for the ride.
The plane crash July 6 of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco offers great insight about emergency planning. While three people were killed in the crash, 304 survived.
Onsite care started out as a way for large manufacturers to treat work injuries. More recently, onsite clinics have been used to manage health costs and to increase productivity among employees of many types of employers. Like concierge medicine and private health exchanges, onsite care clinics support the idea that healthy employees help control employer health care costs.
The Obama administration announced Tuesday plans to delay by one year the enforcement of the employer pay or play health care reform penalty.
HNI works with high-performing companies to help them address the hidden risks in their business and avoid The Insurance Dependency Trap. This is done by proactively DE-RISKING their business so they can be less dependent on insurance.
HNI also offers the basic services of insurance and employee benefits. HNI has offices in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Minneapolis.