What you need to know Today, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is publicly announcing that they will waive cost sharing on telehealth medical services for t...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published a final rule increasing the civil monetary penalties for violations of laws enforced by ...

Transitional plans can stay in force until December 2021. That is if states and carriers allow it! This marks the seventh extension of the transitional relie...

On Friday, November 15, 2019, the Trump administration released its final rule regarding hospital price transparency. This final rule will take effect Januar...

Recently, the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an updated template and related materials for the summary of benefits and...

The IRS has released Revenue Procedure 2019-44 which details the 2020 pre-tax limits for the Health FSA and Commuter Plans. These limits are effective for pl...

To prepare for open enrollment, group health plan sponsors should be aware of the legal changes affecting the design and administration of their plans for pl...

Benefit Communication Made Easy When they’re satisfied with their benefits, employees are 4x more likely to be very satisfied with their jobs1. VSP® Vision C...

On Wednesday July 17th, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) added care for a range of chronic conditions to the list of preventive care benefits that may be p...

Late Wednesday (July 17th) House lawmakers passed legislation to repeal the Cadillac tax, the Affordable Care Act's tax on high-cost health plans 419 to 6. H...

Job figures continued to rise in April, officially bringing unemployment to its lowest in 50 years—3.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). P...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (tri-agencies) issued a final ruling on June 12, 2019 allowing employees to use the...

Effective November 1, 2019, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will be entering into a new partnership with DentalQuest as their dental benefits administrato...

Revenue Procedure 2019-25 was issued by the IRS on May 28, 2019 setting new dollar limitations for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and high-deductible health ...

As more and more older Americans stay in the workforce, employers may have questions about how employees’ Medicare entitlement impacts their group health pla...

Companies have until April 15, 2019 to submit corporate tax returns for income received in 2018. Businesses may use Form 1120 or request a six-month extensio...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has once again allowed insurers and states to renew so-called transitional health plans that pre-dated Aff...

On March 7, 2017, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed an increase in the salary-level threshold for white-collar exemptions from $23,660 to $35,308. Shou...

As employers who provide group health care coverage to their employees know, the agency in which they place their insurance through plays a significant role....

Does your group #healthcare plan have 100 or more "participants" at the beginning of the plan year? If so a Form 5500 filing requirement exists. In additio...