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If you receive health benefits from your employer or are enrolled in the company 401K plan, then you’re most likely subject to open enrollment rules. Basically, that means you can only make changes to your plan at designated periods unless you experience a life status change.

Can you trust your employees to become savvy to both the cost and quality of their care? Studies show that when it comes to choices about when, where and how to seek out care, most people make emotional decisions, not rational ones.  When people ask their doctors questions about their care, it’s far

Phil Bredesen has signed into law a bill to allow small companies to unite to negotiate for group health insurance, small-business advocates hope affordable care and expanded options will soon be available.

Until recently, dental coverage was on the decline as a employer-paid benefit. But a large percentage of employers have reconsidered. Here’s why: Employers have discovered that they’re bound to pay one way or another. It’s often better off to deal with the predictable costs of offering coverage, rather than the hidden costs of not offering it.

You can’t please all the people all the time. But how happy overall are your employees with your health plan? Unfortunately, the majority of the employees polled in a recent survey said they’re not happy with the health plan their employers are paying so much for. That’s the bad news.

Bill and I have been talking for a while about signing up Madison for soccer. She’s only 4, but we have a net in the yard. She’s actually pretty good (this coming from a person who actually played soccer in high school) for a 4 year old. She knows how the goalie throws the ball. She even knows how to dribble the ball.

Whenever a company switches benefit plan carriers, there’

Have you ever held a benefits education session for employees – for example, a presentation during 401(k) or flex account open enrollment season – and been privately disappointed by the results? (more…)

I have often contemplated going back to school. I currently have a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with a minor in Business Administration. That is basically fancy talk for a general studies degree which is all I could get with the program I went through (I was able to attend classes on the weekends and online).