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June 15, 2018 In Business Insurance, Health Insurance By Mike Capaci

What You Should Know About Captive Insurance

Long considered an alternative market, Captive insurance programs are steadily moving to the forefront of business insurance choices. In this blog, I’ll explain exactly what a captive is, how a captive works with business taxes, and the benefits of captives. I’m indebted to an article published online by the International...

May 24, 2018 In Business Insurance, Health Insurance By John Calmes

How to Avoid Healthcare Cost Pitfalls

The relationship between employers and employees can be successful – and it’s usually dependent on the employer’s ability to make good decisions. If the employees are thriving, healthy and happy, the employer most likely has a strong and secure decision-making process that helps the employees – and the company – succeed. Of...

May 4, 2018 In Health Insurance By Brad Knerr

How You Can Control the Cost of Employee Health Insurance

Employers know that the cost of providing health insurance to employees can be a high cost line item, usually second only to payroll. Worse, it can be a fast rising cost that you have little or no control over. It’s a crazy system that makes you choose an employee health plan...

April 11, 2018 In Business Insurance, Health Insurance, Workers Compensation By John Calmes

Control Your Company’s Healthcare Costs – Take Them “Captive”

A recent online article by Michael Schroeder recommends what I’ve been advising my clients for years: employers can control an expense that is rising by double digits through self-funded ”captive” employee health insurance. You’d be smart to do it. The average cost of insuring a family is rising past $25,000 annually,...

December 13, 2017 In Health Insurance By Mark Karlie

What Does the CVS/Aetna Merger Mean for Your Health Care?

We’ve been hearing rumblings about this merger for quite some time and it has finally happened. CVS Health announced that it plans to acquire Aetna, one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies that serves about 44 million people. Assuming this is approved by shareholders and gets the green...

June 28, 2017 In General, Health Insurance, Professional Liability, Safety By Mark Karlie

Senate Postpones Health Vote; Is ACA Here to Stay?

The healthcare vote in the Senate has been delayed because they do not have enough votes to get it through the Budget Reconciliation process, which requires 51 votes to pass. In addition, if something isn’t passed by August 1 of this year, I think they will move on to tax reform and...

June 28, 2017 In General, Health Insurance, Professional Liability, Safety By Mark Karlie

New Senate Health Bill Includes Waiver Wild Card

Here in California, it’s safe to say we as a State would not be asking the federal government for a waiver. The State of California has been a big proponent of the ACA and the Covered California Exchange. If more control is left up to the States it’s the “ Status...

June 28, 2017 In Business Insurance, General, Health Insurance, Safety By Mark Karlie

How Can the Senate Health Care Bill Disrupt the Insurance Market?

It’s a confusing time right now … here are a few thoughts on the health care bill before the Senate. If the Senate does away with the Individual Mandate, then they need to come up with a way to keep healthy people from exiting the market. One strategy they came up with...

May 19, 2017 In Health Insurance, Uncategorized By Brad Knerr

Should You Digitalize Your HR Processes and Benefit Administration?

In order for small and mid-sized companies to stay relevant and recruit top talent, especially among millennials who are projected to make up 50 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020, they will need to keep pace with the latest advancements in HR technologies. Employees are increasingly going online to enroll...

April 6, 2016 In Business Insurance, General, Health Insurance By Brad Knerr

Do you fear COBRA? If not, maybe you should?

Noncompliance with COBRA laws could result in astronomical penalties, legal fees, and other expenses. Consider this: A maximum of $110 penalty per affected participant or beneficiary per day from the date the noncompliance started. Personal liability imposed on plan administrators. It is not unheard of for COBRA violations to cost a company thousands...

What You Should Know About Captive Insurance

How to Avoid Healthcare Cost Pitfalls

How You Can Control the Cost of Employee Health Insurance

Control Your Company’s Healthcare Costs – Take Them “Captive”

What Does the CVS/Aetna Merger Mean for Your Health Care?

Senate Postpones Health Vote; Is ACA Here to Stay?

New Senate Health Bill Includes Waiver Wild Card

How Can the Senate Health Care Bill Disrupt the Insurance Market?

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