1. If you currently provide good healthcare benefits at a reasonable cost, you can probably breathe easy. Healthcare reform won’t be a travesty for your business. 2. If you do not provide benefits to all of your workers, now is the time to plan, since many costs are avoidable with proper planning. 3. If you… [Read More]
Will PPACA Reporting Requirements Keep You Up Nights?
You are going to hate section 6055 and 6056 of the IRS code. Under PPACA, beginning in 2015, employers will have a lot more compliance obligations. First, the easy stuff. Among other details, large employers will have to report to the IRS for every plan they sponsor: health insurance premiums or premium equivalents waiting periods… [Read More]
The Blog Before Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas, in all cyberspace Not a creature was blogging, except to retrace. The SBCs were queued on the printer with care In hopes that HHS would soon make things clear. The pundits were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of ACOs danced in their heads. As election results became… [Read More]
Explaining PPACA: How to Hold Their Focus
Never before have your communication skills faced the education challenge wrought by PPACA. Employers don’t fully get it—yet they need to do a lot of explaining if there is any hope that employees will. It’s clear that the traditional media and communication styles we’re used to will be inadequate. The webinar is the perfect vehicle… [Read More]
Why FrenkelySpeaking? Because There’s More to Information
It’s hard to believe FrenkelySpeaking has been in full swing for eight months now: 75 blogs posted and there is so much more to say. Why should Frenkel blog about healthcare? Aren’t we inundated with information? Sure. But there’s information — and then there’s a real conversation, leading to understanding that’s practical and actionable. With… [Read More]
Frenkel Employees Act to Bring Their Ages Down!
Frenkel recently kicked off our 2012 Smarter Choices Wellness Program with two successful health and wellness fairs that launched our new health risk assessment (HRA) tool, AgeGage. AgeGage includes virtual coaches, educational videos, and health calculators but goes beyond the usual. In addition, it takes the HRA results that discuss risk and puts a tangible number to them. If I’m 40, rarely… [Read More]
How We Doubled HSA Enrollment in 2012
As an employee benefits broker, Frenkel has exceptionally close access to carriers. But does that mean our benefits offerings are better from other companies our size? Certainly not. Our benefit programs are based on standard criteria: size, industry, demographics and claims experience. Our leadership works steadily to control costs just as any business does. An… [Read More]
