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Why your integrated HRA shouldn't be tied to one carrier

PeopleKeep

For many employers offering a group health insurance plan, adding a supplemental benefit in addition to the group plan can help offset your employees’ out-of-pocket costs. This is especially true with high deductible health plans (HDHPs) that require employees to pay a higher amount on their own before their insurance kicks in.

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Examples of fringe benefits by category

Business Management Daily

Not only have countless services emerged to simplify things like wellness and retirement, but employee benefits administration software (BA) now exists to help companies simplify the process of delivering a benefits program. HMO plans often have lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs compared to other plans.

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Smallest Firms See Largest Health Insurance Hikes

InterWest Insurance Services

for all small to mid-sized businesses with up to 250 employees, according to the report by HR and benefits software company Ease. The cost for individual group health plans increased 6.7% Overall rates for employers with 10 or fewer employees saw their family plan health insurance premiums jump 12% from 2021, compared to just 5.4%

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Understanding the Pre-Deductible Telehealth Coverage Extension

Benefit Resource Inc.

The two-year renewal of pre-deductible telehealth coverage will allow employers and their employees better access to healthcare services without having to pay large out-of-pocket costs. For employees, this means they have more options when accessing healthcare services without having to worry about large out-of-pocket costs.

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Easing the Benefits Enrollment Process with Decision Support and More

Flimp Communications

Decision-support tools are software programs that help non-experts (i.e., These tools have three basic components : the data, the software system and the interface. The software system can be built based on a variety of mathematical and analytical models and algorithms to analyze the data.

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The Future of the Affordable Care Act

Asure Software

Kaiser Health News notes, “ That’s important because once a patient hits that out-of-pocket maximum, the insurer is responsible for all in-network medical costs for the rest of the year.” . Out-of-pocket costs to be regulated. However, it can be difficult to keep up with the changes.