Health and Wellness

Health-care reform. It’s daunting. It’s controversial. And no matter how you feel about the law, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June, reform is coming. And when it does, it will have …

On Jan. 1, 2014, a host of new rules, mandates, taxes and incentives under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will go into effect, dramatically shifting the landscape of the employer-provided health insurance model …

Summaries of Benefits and Coverage
Group health plans must begin providing members with a standard Summary of Benefits and Coverage so they can compare medical plans to make decisions about which plan to choose.


Form …

Wellmark’s health-care reform website:
www.WeKnowReform.com

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ health reform website:
www.HealthCare.gov

Kaiser Family Foundation:
http://healthreform.kff.org

Summary of employer responsibilities:
http://healthreform.kff.org/the-basics/employer-penalty-flowchart.aspx…

Since the Affordable Care Act became law, Reynolds & Reynolds has had the play-or-pay conversation with many of its large clients, Gooding said.

“Some of the employers have looked at it as, ‘Well, I’d be …

A majority of Iowa employers polled  in the latest available survey by David P. Lind Benchmark indicated they plan to continue offering health coverage, which mirrors a national survey released this week by Towers Watson …

If the trend of rising health insurance costs in Iowa continues, premiums for both individual and family coverage will more than double within the next seven years, said David Lind, president of David P. Lind …