More Liability for Employers with less than 20 Employees
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, COBRA/State Continuation, Health Insurance | No Comments »Much has been made about the changes to COBRA that are contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, but not too many people realize that every employer with less than 20 employees has obligations under this law ...
SCHIP Signed: Doctors Get a Pay Cut
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Health Insurance, National Healthcare, politics | 2 Comments »Yesterday President Obama signed the 2009 reauthorization bill for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) program. This legislation will reportedly make about 4,000,000 individuals now eligible for that taxpayer funded health coverage at a cost of $33 billion ...
Georgia Gets a New Provider Network
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Business Insurance, Health Insurance | No Comments »Deborah Michael and I organized an informal breakfast meeting this morning between physician practice consultant, Mike Fleischman and insurance company executive, Don Weitzel. Oil and water under most circumstances, but productive in this setting. To date Principal Life Insurance ...
Obama’s COBRA Changes
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Business Insurance, COBRA/State Continuation, Health Insurance, politics | 1 Comment »Occasionally I am asked when a person who is on COBRA will be off the group plan. Often times the COBRA participant is sicker than the general employee population and is therefore holding the group back from switching insurers ...
10 ways to lower benefits costs
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Business Insurance, Health Insurance, Start-Ups | 3 Comments »Okay, I guess that TARP thing isn't exactly working out now is it? Prudent companies are looking at ways to cut costs. Let's explore some ways to squeeze real dollars out of your employee benefits program without significantly ...
PEOs – Convenience Store Insurance
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Business Insurance, Health Insurance, Start-Ups | No Comments »Would you buy all your groceries at the local convenience store? Of course not! So why buy your benefits from a Professional Employee Organization (PEO)? Convenience comes at a price. In a nutshell, a PEO, sometimes called a ...
Lucas Group – A Consumer-Driven Health Care Case Study
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Business Insurance, Consumer Driven Health Care, Health Insurance | No Comments »We just wrapped up open enrollment meetings for Lucas Group, an Atlanta-based executive search firm. Effectively informing four hundred employees who are spread throughout the United States of their employee benefit plan choices is a daunting task, but one ...
Is your benefits broker clueless?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Business Insurance, COBRA/State Continuation, Health Insurance, Start-Ups | No Comments »I am constantly amazed at the lack of detailed benefits knowledge exhibited by many of our competitors. Hiring a competent insurance broker makes good business sense. A well-informed broker will be able to guide you and your HR ...
Feel the Burn… Benefit Plan Selection for a Newly Funded Start-Up
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Health Insurance, High-Tech Companies, Start-Ups | 1 Comment »Okay, so your bank account just went from 0 to 60 in Porsche Carrera GT kinda time. Sorry I just needed an excuse to post a video of a car that's so hot it's not even on Porsche's retail ...
Clearleap goes Cool!
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Benefit Plan Design, Health Insurance, High-Tech Companies, Start-Ups | No Comments »Two weeks ago, Deborah Michael and I spent some time with Braxton Jarratt and John Vecchio, two of the founders from Clearleap. I got to know John during his days at N2 Broadband (now Tandberg Television, an Ericsson company). ...
