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Top 10 Employee Benefits Certifications for Professionals in 2024

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Administered by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) and Dalhousie University, this program provides a comprehensive education on employee benefits, retirement plans, and health benefits. Key Benefits: Specialized training in health insurance plans, products, and regulations.

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3 Email Templates for Health Insurance Explainers

Flimp Communications

As an HR professional, you deal with the consequences of health insurance illiteracy every day: Employees make poor choices based on incomplete knowledge or false assumptions, increasing frustration and driving up costs for your entire organization. Related: Health Insurance Key Terms, Explained.

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How the Next Executive Order Could and Should End Employer-based Health Insurance by 2023

Joe Markland

Over the past 6 years I have published several articles on the need to personalize health insurance (and get the employer out of the way) by making an individual insurance policy tax deductible. will reap benefits through lower costs, more options, and ultimately better health care. Employees throughout the U.S.

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Most Workers Make Bad Health Insurance Decisions

InterWest Insurance Services

Even though the majority of workers receive health insurance coverage on the job, a new survey has found that many of them understand surprisingly little about their health plans and are leaving money on the table. Most health plans do not cover out-of-network care. Most health plans do not cover out-of-network care.

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Smallest Firms See Largest Health Insurance Hikes

InterWest Insurance Services

A new report has found that small businesses that purchase their group health insurance online or through payroll vendors saw the largest premium hikes in 2022, significantly higher than those that went through brokers. Coverage can often be configured to be compatible with HDHPs using health savings accounts.

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Gen Z, Millennials Grow Disillusioned with Their Health Insurance

InterWest Insurance Services

Surprise bills and billing errors are driving growing dissatisfaction among Millennials and Gen Zers with their health insurance, a new study has found. Already facing outsized medical cost hits, an increase in billing mistakes and surprise bills is contributing to a dim view of health insurance among Millennials and Gen Zers.

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Group Health Insurance Considerations For Staff Working Past Retirement Age

InterWest Insurance Services

How Medicare eligibility affects health savings accounts. Discontinuing group health coverage. If you decide to keep them on the company’s plan, how you handle their insurance depends on your size: Fewer than 20 employees — Employees who work for these firms will need to enroll in Medicare when they turn 65.