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Best Employee Benefits in Light Manufacturing

Winston Benefits

If your company is involved in manufacturing, you know that offering strong benefits is a must. Manufacturing jobs tend to have better benefits than many other industries, so staying competitive can be difficult. If you’re involved in light manufacturing, these top benefits can help you stand out. Strong Health Benefits.

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Employers ‘Unwavering’ in Providing Group Health Benefits: Research

InterWest Insurance Services

The poll of 26 health benefits decision-makers at large firms, carried out by The Commonwealth Fund and the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI), found that despite rising premium and health care costs, they felt obligated to offer health insurance instead of shunting employees to exchanges.

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New Approaches to Managing Health Care Costs, Improving Outcomes

InterWest Insurance Services

As health insurance and health care costs continue climbing, some employers are taking new and innovative steps to tamp down costs for themselves and their covered employees while not sacrificing the quality of care they receive. Depending on the PBM, this may or may not work.

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Employers Wrestling with Covering Weight-Loss Drugs

InterWest Insurance Services

The explosion in demand for new, costly and highly effective weight-loss and diabetes drugs is poised to play an outsized role in increasing the cost of health care, and in turn, health insurance in America. in 2023, compared to an increase of 6.4% in 2022, according to a report by Mercer.

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FEDlogic – An Employee Benefit Reducing Expenses & Offering Peace of Mind 

HR Professionals Magazine

This mother was troubled that she had no income to sustain her family, but I was able to assist her with applications for mother-in-care benefits, survivor benefits for each child, and health insurance through Medicaid.” She reached out for help with possible federal benefits amid her grief.

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Departments Provide Relief for 2020 and 2021 Prescription Drug Reporting

Benefits Notes

In addition, plans and issuers now have until January 31, 2023 to provide a good faith submission of 2020 and 2021 data through the Health Insurance Oversight System. The prescription drug and health care spending reporting obligation falls on the group health plan.

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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. Wishing you good health!