by US Rx Care | Jul 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 requires agents, brokers and consultants providing health plan-related services to disclose the compensation they receive and the services they perform for that compensation. The rules apply to individual insurance...
by US Rx Care | Jul 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
As the labor market tightens and businesses struggle to attract new talent, many companies are starting to boost their employee benefit offerings, particularly voluntary benefits. But besides added benefit choices, what many employees want is relief from continually...
by US Rx Care | Jul 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
The IRS has set the maximum amounts employees can funnel into their health savings accounts and health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) for the 2022 policy year. The IRS updates these amounts every year to adjust for inflation in addition to minimum deductibles for...
by US Rx Care | Jun 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new study has found that people enrolled in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) actually are more likely to consider costs and quality when considering non-emergency care. The 14th annual “Consumer Engagement in Health Care” study by the Employee...
by US Rx Care | Jun 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
One major repercussion of the COVID-19 pandemic is that employees are embracing the voluntary benefits their employers are offering them, but they’d like to see more choices and issues such as mental health and voluntary benefits have risen to the fore. The...
by US Rx Care | Jun 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
As you will recall, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) includes a 100% COBRA subsidy for people who were laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the law, which took effect April 1, the Department of Labor was required to issue model notices that...
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by US Rx Care | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Group health plan insurers are expected to pay out $618 million in rebates to plan sponsors for the 2020 policy year after seeing use of health care services plummet during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to a Kaiser Family Foundation estimate in April,...
by US Rx Care | Jun 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Research has found that employers who offered their workers stand-alone vision benefits experienced $5.8 billion in cost savings in the aggregate over four years due to reduced health care costs, avoided productivity losses, and lower turnover rates. That’s...
by US Rx Care | May 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
As the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel gets brighter, more health insurers are ceasing to offer cost-sharing waivers for COVID-19 treatment. After legislation was enacted in 2020 that required health insurance companies to cover COVID-19 tests and vaccines,...
