An old friend told me this one: If you are not at the table, you are on the menu Big bad wolf imagery aside… most of us don’t want to be on the menu! Are you on the menu when it comes to negotiating your health care plan? If you don’t have full and transparent access to your data […]
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As more of America’s workers were asked to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals jumped at the opportunity to take advantage, it seems. Remote work means work being handled on the cloud as employees share files and need a convenient way to access them. But cyber criminals are banking on workers
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About two months ago, we negotiated a fairly large technology purchase for our office – laptops, monitors, docks, the whole nine-yards…. You would have thought we were conducting a military operation with the planning that went into this project.• Apple or Microsoft?• Who needed more storage, cache, or did we all need the same?• Did
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As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, many employers have had to lay off or furlough staff due to a tremendous drop-off in business. Besides the loss of income they face, these workers will often also lose their employer-sponsored health insurance. With this in mind, many employers have been wondering if they can permit coverage to
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Are you paying your benefits advisor for activity or for results? Are you paying them to administer your plan or to control your costs? There are eight questions you can ask to find out. In the previous article, I shared with you the first four questions. Here are the next four. 5. What do you do
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Whether your business owns a single vehicle or an entire fleet, you will want to have a proper risk management program in place to reduce the chances of accidents and of being held liable for vehicle misuse by your employees. While most businesses buy commercial auto insurance and feel they have their bases covered, you
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Some health insurers are helping business workers in group plans maintain employee benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey has found. Social distancing and stay-at-home orders have put the hurt on hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country, which has forced them to reduce employees’ hours, furlough them or lay them off. Besides
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Are you paying your benefits advisor for activity or for results? Are you paying them to administer your plan or to control your costs? There are eight questions you can ask to find out. 1. Are you able to provide my medical and claims data and insights from my fully insured health plan? You will find out
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Many midsize employers believe that self insurance is full of rules and redtape that fully insured plans don’t have. However, that’snot necessarily the case. Compliance is integral to self insurance and there are several items that you are responsible for as a self-funded employer, including:• ERISA fiduciary responsibilities,• Non-discrimination rules,• Reporting and disclosure,• Requirements notices,•
What are my Fiduciary Responsibilities as a Self-Funded Employer? Read More »
Employers whose businesses continue to operate are obviously concerned about the coronavirus spreading through their worksites, so many have started testing their workers. Recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance authorized employers to conduct COVID-19 testing and check temperatures of employees. But doing so could expose a business to a number of employee legal actions
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This is the face you make after a minor mishap with filming!
My introduction before Craig Lack is now long lost footage.
That’s show biz, right?!
The good news is that Craig is talking about the strategies we’re both using to help organizations liberate the dollars trapped in their health spend.
I’m available after you watch and learn to talk the nitty gritty – how it works, implementation, executive buy-in and employee adoption.
Happy Watching!
