Rodney Brooks, USA TODAY Many people nearing retirement don’t have a good feeling about whether they have saved enough to make it through retirement. Add to that worries about health care costs in retirement, and those concerns are off the chart Continue reading
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W-2 forms now detail health care costs
taxes Taxes Tax Filing W-2 Forms Now Detail Health Care Costs Have you taken a good look at your 2012 Form W-2? If you get health care coverage through your job, then you probably noticed a new amount in box 12. That figure reflects how much you and your employer spent on your health insurance premiums last year Continue reading
New Health Care Survey Finds Spending on Wellness Incentives Has Doubled in the Last Four Years
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– According to a new employer survey conducted by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), corporate employers plan to spend an average of $521 per employee on wellness-based incentives within corporate health care programs. This marks an increase of 13 percent from the average of $460 reported for 2011, and is double the per employee average of $260 reported in 2009. The survey is the latest in a series of studies Fidelity and the NBGH have conducted since 2009 to analyze the growth of health-improvement programs, or wellness programs, in the workplace Continue reading
Health Care Leaders We Care & Pace Join Forces
The Pace Group of Companies become a subsidiary of We Care Health Services TORONTO, Feb. 11, 2013 /CNW/ – We Care Health Services (We Care), Canada’s most trusted name in home health care and support services, is pleased to announce that it is further expanding its comprehensive health care portfolio with the acquisition of the Kitchener-Waterloo based Pace Group of Companies (Pace). The addition of Pace, which includes Pace Consulting Group, Pace Homecare and Pace Physiotherapy Centre, broadens We Care’s service offerings, most notably in the areas of therapy and rehabilitation services, as well as organizational consulting Continue reading
Health care premiums sometimes taxed
Readers brought up some good comments about my Thursday column on the provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires most employers to begin reporting the cost of employer-provided health care on their W-2 forms, starting with W-2 forms issued for 2012. The cost, reported in Box 12 with the code DD, includes both the employer and employee share of health insurance premiums for the year. It might or might not include dental and vision care premiums depending on how the employer packages benefits Continue reading
Liberty Insurance to cut 285 jobs
irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2012, 19:27 AINE McMAHON Liberty Insurance, formerly Quinn Insurance, is to shed 285 jobs at its offices on both sides of the Border. The development comes on top of 900 redundancies two years ago at the company. At staff meetings this afternoon, workers were told that 140 redundancies would be sought in Blanchardstown in Dublin, 75 in Cavan town and 70 in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. Continue reading
U.S. Preventive Medicine To Open Singapore Operations Center To Launch Asia Preventive Medicine
DALLAS and JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. Continue reading
SullivanCotter and HighRoads Launch Survey to Provide Comprehensive Data on Hospital and Health Systems Benefit Plans
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, Inc, a human resources and total compensation consulting firm specializing in the health care industry, and HighRoads the industry leader in employer health care compliance and benefits management, today announced their Second Annual Employee Benefit Practices in Hospitals and Health Systems survey is now open for participation. The SullivanCotter/HighRoads Survey of Employee Benefit Practices in Hospitals and Health Systemsis the only comprehensive broad-based benefits survey that is specifically designed for hospitals and health systems Continue reading
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Hosts Third Annual 'International Observe the Moon Night'
What: NASA will host “International Observe the Moon Night” Saturday, Sept. 22 at the Education Training Facility located at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Continue reading
NRF Warns of ‘Regulatory Train Wreck’ with Health Care Regulations
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The National Retail Federation told a congressional panel today that the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury have used too much informal guidance and not enough formal rulemaking in developing regulations to implement the new health care reform law, complicating retailers and other employers ability to plan for what will be required in 2014. Continue reading
Largest Health Plan Survey Cites Key Trends for National and Massachusetts Employer Health Plans
NEWTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– In spite of the passage of health care reform legislation, health care costs will continue to increase for both plan sponsors and their employees, according to EBS Capstone, a Massachusetts based Member Firm of United Benefit Advisors (UBA), the nation’s largest independent benefits advisory organization. Preliminary results released by UBA from its 2012 UBA Health Plan Survey with 17,905 plans from 11,711 employers — and the only one of its kind to offer local benefits benchmarking capabilities — show some startling trends in employer health plans Continue reading
New Market-Leading Health Plans From Independence Blue Cross Offer More for Your Money
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Continue reading
Employers eye defined contribution health coverage
In other news on health care marketplace issues, TriWest loses its challenge to the Pentagon’s new contract for military health care, and researchers find prices increasing for children’s care. Continue reading
Freedom of Speech and Your Office
Once you enter a private workplace, freedom of speech protections technically go out the windowwhether you are a business owner or employee. However, your employees can, and will still voice their opinions on everything from President Obamas stance on immigration to the L.A. Continue reading
Retired couples may need $240,000 for health care
BOSTON Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to an annual projection released this month by Fidelity Investments. The estimated $240,000 that a newly retired couple will need to cover health-care expenses reflects the typical pattern of projected annual increases. The Boston-based company cut the estimate for the first time last year, citing President Obamas health-care overhaul Continue reading