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7 Reasons to Add Voluntary Group Products to Your Benefits Strategy
Voluntary benefits enable employers to offer their employees the ability to choose from a menu of benefits that meet the employee’s needs, even if the employees pay the full cost of those benefits....
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7 Tips on How To Pick The Best Individual Health Insurance Coverage
There are two main reasons for a huge upsurge in individual health insurance inquiries. One is that thousands of baby boomers are retiring daily, and those that aren’t lucky enough to have a health...
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How to Get, or Keep, Health Insurance if You Are Self Employed
If you’re starting your own business – Good for you! It’s a big leap of faith and can often times be a big hit on your pocket book. If you’re leaving a full-time employer to make this move, chances are...
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4 Potential Effects of The Obamacare ACA Employer Mandate Delay
A major provision of the Healthcare law that would require employers to provide health insurance for their workers has been delayed until 2015. The part that is delayed: the requirement that...
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Wisconsin Health Exchanges Offer Slim Pickins
The first cut of the Wisconsin Health Insurance exchange markets have been announced and it looks like slim pickins! Wisconsin’s “big 3″ (United Healthcare, Humana and Anthem) are not participating in...
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Form 720: New HRA Research Fee
The IRS has issued a revised Form 720 (Quarterly Federal Excise Tax) that now includes a section for reporting the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) research fees, also called the...
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Health Benefits Continue to Be Key for Employers Despite Obamacare
82% of mid-to-large size employers surveyed in a recent Towers Watson survey will continue to view health care benefits as a key element of their employee’s compensation in 2014. Despite the impending...
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Individual Marketplace Exchange: 41% Rate Increase for 40 Year Olds In Milwaukee
With the onset of Obamacare and the need for individuals to make decisions about their own health insurance purchases, I thought it appropriate to share the information we received from the Wisconsin...
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Navigators Versus Agents: Inside the Federally Facilitated Exchange
The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) brought a much confused topic to light – differentiating the duties of a Health Care Navigator versus a Health Insurance Independent Agent....
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Buyer Beware: Review Your Enrollment from Healthcare.gov
By now, the deadline for registering for individual health insurance on healthcare.gov has come and gone. However the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) is warning consumers to...
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