Corporate Synergies

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Annual health insurance carrier negotiations doesn’t have to be a contact sport. During carrier negotiations, employers naturally seek the lowest rate increase, while carriers typically propose a high increase. Want to Tackle Rising Insurance Costs? © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC. As Seen In.

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Griffin Benefits

JULY 12, 2021

Furthermore, the DOL's Fiduciary Rule, which went into effect July 1, 2019, has also helped neutralize some of these more unreasonable provisions. If the liability exists, the vendor or the vendor's insurance carrier should handle it. We could provide countless others. The point is that no cap should exist.

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Higginbotham

JUNE 7, 2022

Most employers have already been contacted by their carrier or third-party administrator (TPA) and will rely on their insurance carriers or TPAs to provide the MRFs. However, a federal spending bill enacted at the end of 2019 extended the PCORI fees for an additional 10 years. Employer Takeaway.

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Genesis HR Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2019, BCBS Massachusetts achieved the highest score for coverage and benefits, provider choice, information and communication, and billing and payment. Other awards include: Best insurance provider in Worcester Business Journal’s Best of Business awards voting (2019).

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Corporate Synergies

MARCH 25, 2019

Rather than reaching out to an insurance carrier first, whose issue resolution success is measured based on the call time, employees contact their benefits advocate. This expert is trained to answer questions, deal with insurance claims and support employees on their medical journey. © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC.

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Higginbotham

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, imagine a situation involving a surgeon with a medical malpractice liability insurance policy. During an operation in 2019, the surgeon makes a mistake that will require additional surgeries later and cause pain and suffering for the patient. Switching Insurance Carriers.

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Corporate Synergies

APRIL 15, 2019

Self funding also provides more plan design flexibility and eliminates the internal costs that an insurance carrier builds into a plan for profit. © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC. Regionality of Employee Benefits: 4 Factors for Equal Healthcare. Dramatic Regulatory Change Complicates Employee Benefits.

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Corporate Synergies

JULY 22, 2019

From 2009 to 2016 (the most recent data available), the average amount that hospitals billed insurance carriers for an emergency room visit more than doubled, from $600 to $1,322. © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC. The cost to the employer (and often the employee) is often far less than the ER.

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Genesis HR Solutions

AUGUST 19, 2020

NAPEO ) For 2018 to 2019, the growth rate of employees of PEO clients grew at 5.6%, versus 1.4% Managing insurance carrier relationships. This percentage growth in the PEO industry is 14 times higher than that of employment in the United States economy as a whole. Extensis Group ). for non-PEO clients. for non-PEO clients.

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Corporate Synergies

APRIL 8, 2019

While self-insured employers will have more insight into exactly how much they are paying for prescription plans, they may still struggle to remain flexible as market consolidation continues. Many self-insured employers still turn to large insurance carriers to act as third-party administrator (TPA) of the plan.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

3d 1099 (2019)], which concluded that such reimbursement would not violate state law. Town of Tonawanda , 2019 N.Y. 17, 2019)] had hinted that reimbursement might be required under appropriate circumstances. Panaggio appealed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court [see 172 N.H. Dicta in an earlier decision [ Matter of Kluge v.

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BerniePortal

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Check out this column in Employee Benefits Adviser : Very soon, all of the major insurance carriers will have an in-house pharmacy benefit manager, a trend that could reshape consumer access to prescription drugs and impact the negotiations between insurers, drug manufacturers and pharmacies.

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Benefits Notes

MARCH 31, 2021

While employers (for self-insured plans and multi-employer plans) or insurance carriers (for fully insured plans) are responsible for the COBRA subsidy, the paying entity is entitled to take a federal tax credit against payroll taxes. It is recommended that notices are not updated until the model notices are issued.

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GRA Benefits Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Advocates have arrived in the form of third-party vendors, apps, and even insurance carriers. In 2019, President Trump explained: “To make fully informed decisions about their healthcare, patients must know the price and quality of a good or service in advance.

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Fringe Benefit Analysts

JANUARY 25, 2021

Originally offered in March of 2020 for COVID-19, this second round of funds will be available to employers with less than 300 employees who continued to have a loss of receipts for one quarter of 2020 compared to the same quarter in 2019. . We are independent and sell a variety of insurance plans with many insurance carriers.

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