There have been numerous announcements and changes in the health care market recently, impacting not only workers in that industry, but employee benefits in nearly every other sector as well. Just a few of the recent changes include an executive order from the current...
A new rule could shake up the way employers and employees leverage their health reimbursement arrangement funds. The regulation, passed recently by the departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services, enables employers to leverage pretax money to...
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives made an important decision regarding the so-called “Cadillac tax,” which came as part of the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. Representatives voted on July 17 to repeal and eliminate the tax...
On June 24, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to support more "opaque pricing structures" within healthcare services. The purpose of the order to is enable American consumers to have better and more transparent access to...
Whether they find them helpful or pesky, almost all consumers have grown accustomed to the presence of chatbots, the conversational artificial intelligence programs that use voice or text to convincingly simulate how a human would answer questions and provide advice...
When a situation arises that involves the departure of an employee, one of the first considerations on the mind of that worker as well their HR representative is often the potential for severance. Over the past few years, though, there has been a decline in the number...
