Monthly Archives: May 2015

via Wall Street Journal Finance chiefs grappling with rising health-care costs face a new dilemma: how to avoid paying hefty taxes on generous employee health-care plans. The Affordable Care Act calls for an excise tax on high-cost health plans, starting … Continue reading →

via Wall Street Journal Express Scripts Holding Co., a large manager of prescription-drug benefits for U.S. employers and insurers, is seeking deals with pharmaceutical companies that would set pricing for some cancer drugs based on how well they work. The … Continue reading →

via Wall Street Journal Sometimes, fixing one statistical problem creates a new one. For years, the Current Population Surveyconducted by the U.S. Census Bureau overestimated the number of people without health insurance. Last year, the Census Bureau revised the survey to … Continue reading →

via Wall Street Journal The Supreme Court on Monday put companies managing 401(k) retirement plans on notice they have a continuing duty to be judicious on plan investment decisions, adding protections for the worker savings plans. A unanimous court said … Continue reading →

via USA Today The Supreme Court today made it possible for workers saving for retirement to sue their 401(k) plans for offering investments with excessive fees. The court ruled unanimously in favor of current and former workers of Edison International, … Continue reading →

via RAND Corporation Insurance coverage has increased across all types of insurance since the major provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act took effect, with a net total of 16.9 million people becoming newly enrolled through February 2015, according to … Continue reading →

via Deloitte HR Times Blog With businesses around the world citing culture and engagement as one of their top challenges (see Culture and engagement: The naked organization), office design is being considered as a multifaceted organization design solution. Companies are … Continue reading →

via Lockton Benefit Group Compliance Services The IRS has released the inflation-adjusted contribution and related amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs) and HSA-compatible high-deductible health plans, or HDHPs, for 2016. These limits are tied to changes in the Consumer Price … Continue reading →

via Lockton Benefits Insight & Guidance Hundreds of new specialty drugs are in the approval pipeline. Because these new drugs come with high price tags, the time to begin predicting their impact on your plan’s costs is now, before they … Continue reading →

via Wall Street Journal People used to buy long-term-care insurance because they were scared. Now it is the policies themselves that are keeping buyers awake at night. The coverage—which pays for some or all of the costs of nursing homes, … Continue reading →