Higginbotham

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, imagine a situation involving a surgeon with a medical malpractice liability insurance policy. During an operation in 2019, the surgeon makes a mistake that will require additional surgeries later and cause pain and suffering for the patient. How would you handle a lawsuit without insurance coverage?

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Genesis HR Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2019, BCBS Massachusetts achieved the highest score for coverage and benefits, provider choice, information and communication, and billing and payment. Other awards include: Best insurance provider in Worcester Business Journal’s Best of Business awards voting (2019).

Health Insurance 40

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Corporate Synergies

MARCH 25, 2019

A benefits advocate who delivers the how and why of plan use when employees are asking for assistance helps the employer control health insurance costs. To cut health plan costs, many employers are moving toward a self-funded plan that provides transparency into claims data. As Seen In. More on that in a minute.

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Corporate Synergies

JULY 22, 2019

Adopting an urgent care first mentality can help employees and employers control healthcare costs. But these centers could also help employers minimize expensive emergency room (ER) claims. The cost to the employer (and often the employee) is often far less than the ER. © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC. As Seen In.

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Genesis HR Solutions

AUGUST 19, 2020

Like almost every other industry, professional employer organizations (PEOs) have been forced by the global pandemic to ask themselves this question. Get an in-depth look at professional employer organizations and why you should consider partnering with one. “What is our industry’s new normal?” Click To Tweet. million to 3.7

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Corporate Synergies

APRIL 15, 2019

Many employers have little line of sight into how their plan is performing until it’s too late. Regardless of strategy, I recommend employers take steps toward a self-funding benefits model. Self funding also provides more plan design flexibility and eliminates the internal costs that an insurance carrier builds into a plan for profit.

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Griffin Benefits

JULY 12, 2021

This is particularly unfortunate given what's occurred over the last decade in the employer-sponsored group benefits space. the employer) while relieving the vendor from almost all meaningful liability. Upon pushback from an employer on a provision like this, a vendor may suggest a compromise in the form of making the provision mutual.

Employee Benefits 52

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Corporate Synergies

APRIL 8, 2019

Consolidation in the insurance industry—integrating pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) into carriers—is bringing change to the way employers buy health insurance and how employees and consumers use it. Whether these PBM-carrier mergers are good or bad remains to be seen. What Plans Should Do Right Now.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is, of course, one thing for a state to allow the use of marijuana in the treatment of injuries and diseases, but quite another to require employers and/or insurers to reimburse injured workers in connection with a workers’ compensation claim. The appellate court disagreed with the employer’s premise. 3d 924 (N.M.

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GRA Benefits Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Advocates have arrived in the form of third-party vendors, apps, and even insurance carriers. In 2019, President Trump explained: “To make fully informed decisions about their healthcare, patients must know the price and quality of a good or service in advance. Better-informed employers that help workers shop for value.

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Benefits Notes

MARCH 31, 2021

Many of the provisions in this sweeping legislation bring changes to the employee benefits world of which employers should take note and which are summarized below. The ARPA also allows the employer, insurer, or multiemployer plan sponsor who subsided the premiums to offset the cost by claiming a new federal tax credit.

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Fringe Benefit Analysts

JANUARY 25, 2021

On top of a $600 Stimulus check that has gone out to Americans, there are many other parts of the law that may affect Employers. Employers should consider the follow parts of The Act that will affect you and your employees ! Brokers like me get paid through commissions from insurance companies on the policies that we sell to members.

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