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Here’s What You Need to Know About Stop-Loss Health Insurance

Griffin Benefits

One solution means looking inward: transitioning from the fully funded model of healthcare benefits to self-funded health plans featuring stop-loss insurance. Stop-loss insurance is essential for a self-funded plan because it enables an employer to cap medical claims expenses at a specific amount.

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20% of U.S. hospitals have been warned over secretive prices

Employee Benefit News

The nation's largest hospital system has been cited for failing to make prices fully available to the public

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Baby Health Insurance Playbook: 5 Steps to Plan for a Newborn

Corporate Synergies

A new father outlines requirements with his Baby Health Insurance Playbook. The same can be said for insuring a new dependent. To plan for newborn healthcare benefits, parents need a baby health insurance playbook. The Baby Health Insurance Playbook isn’t really a book. As Seen In.

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Dear Valued Participant, we’re here for you

Benefit Resource Inc.

Lately, we’ve seen an uptick in questions around the roles of responsibilities of your company’s broker, your TPA (that’s us), and your health insurance provider. And where does your health insurance carrier play into this? What is a health insurance carrier? Let’s break it down.

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Employee wellness benefits are shifting focus to reflect modern times

Business Management Daily

When current and future employees examine a company’s benefits package, they typically expect to see employer-sponsored health insurance among the offerings. With rising medical costs, employee concern over health insurance coverage will not wane any time soon. Creating a safe environment remains important.

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Easing the Benefits Enrollment Process with Decision Support and More

Flimp Communications

SHRM observed that employers and employees have different ideas about the best methods for selecting and enrolling in healthcare benefits. That observation is backed up by a 2015 study from the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association. They usually display only one choice for health insurance at the end.

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Employee Compensation: Hazard Pay, Leave and Employee Satisfaction

Flimp Communications

Several industries have workers striking (or threatening to strike) over working conditions, employee compensation and leave or healthcare benefits. No one can doubt that healthcare workers and those in industries like grocery stores are valued right now, both by their employers and society at large.