Employee Benefits

Open enrollment is a period of time each year when employers permit new employees to enroll in a health plan…

One of the forces driving specialty medication prices is the bottleneck created by lengthy review periods for new drugs, including…

Has your company been approached by one or more vendors claiming to offer a “wellness plan” or “indemnity plan” that…

Determining exactly which employer benefit programs are ERISA welfare benefit plans can be complicated. In general, even minimal employer involvement…

A self-funded plan holds all the risk—and potential rewards—of running a health plan. To help mitigate that risk, self-funded plans…

Most discussions about self-funding come with the same warning: a self-funded health plan is not right for every organization. Self-funding…

Who Is the Fiduciary of Your Employer Group Welfare Plan? The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is…

The IRS has announced 2027 indexing adjustments to the applicable dollar amounts used to calculate employer shared responsibility payments under…