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Employer Health Benefit News |
Vol. 13, Issue 1, January 2012 |
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California Employers Offering Health Coverage
By Firm Characteristics, 2011
| Lower-Wage Firms |
42% |
| Higher-Wage Firms |
66% |
| Many Part-Time Workers |
41% |
| Fewer Part-Time Workers |
70% |
| At Least Some Union Workers |
84% |
| No Union Workers |
61% |
| All Firms |
63% |
Source: California Employer Health Benefits Survey: 2011,
California HealthCare Foundation/National Opinion Research
Center, December 2011,
http://www.chcf.org/publications/2011/12/employer-health-benefits
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IRS issues guidance on reporting health cover costs on
employees' W-2s
Business Insurance, January 4,
2012
Employers urged to prepare in 2012 for health care reform
North Bay Business Journal, January 2, 2012
Be
Healthy, Win A Bonus From The Boss
Colorado Public News, January 2, 2012
Employee benefit plan regulations face pivotal new year
Business Insurance, January 1, 2012
Affordable Care Act Requires Some Companies to Report Employer
Health Care Costs in 2012?
PRWEB, December 29, 2011
Lab-based wellness programs report value, success
NJBIZ, December 21, 2011
Compliance Risk Issues with Employer Health Plans
Boardmember, December 21, 2011
Companies embrace wellness programs
The Tennessean, December 17, 2011
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New Health Benefits Marketplace: Exchanges and Beyond
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The Segal Group
presents the dramatic restructuring of the health care
industry, including the establishment in 2014 of state
health insurance exchanges, will have far-reaching
implications for employer-sponsored health plans and
participants.
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1. Pool together with others for healthcare
2. Get as many quotes as humanly possible
3. Provide a wellness program
4.
Go to the extreme and don't hire smokers
5.
Set up a nurse hotline through your insurer or through an
outside source
6. Volunteer to be part of a
pilot program
7. Consider cost sharing of
various kinds with employees
8. Narrow the
choices
9. Audit your premiums
10.
Cover only generic drugs
Source:
Forbes Entrepreneurs
check out more lists on
healthsprocket. "What's on your list?"
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Upcoming Webinars:
Benchmarking Employer Onsite Health and Fitness Centers,
January 19, 2012
Hospital
C-Suite Compensation: How Much is Too Much?, January 20, 2012
Managing Patient Security and Privacy on a New Data-Sharing
Playground, January 25, 2012
Future Care Web Summit, January 26, 2012
Transparent Cost Networks: A Consumer Driven Solution,
February 9, 2012
The Impact
of Risk Adjustment on Quality of Care: Next Steps in Better Case
Management, February 22, 2012
Moving
Towards Accountable Care: Aetna's Medicare Provider
Collaboration Program, February 23, 2012
Consumerism Web Summit, March 15, 2012
Check out CD-ROMs of
past HealthcareWebSummit events on a wide range of
key topics at
www.healthwebsummit.com/cdroms.htm
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