Issue 30
Editorial
Benefits Go Live in 2012
It was a fascinating year, as we shed light on the challenges and trends in Employee Benefits, examined the evolution of Healthcare Reform and provide (read more)
Features
Getting Desk-based Employees Standing Again: Establishing a Culture of Incidental Physical Activity in the Office Environment
The typical full-time desk based employee will be required to sit at a desk for approximately 80,000 hours during their working life. (read more)
New Year – New Wellness Plan
Personal aspirations aside, what are your resolutions in 2012 as a wellness manager? You probably have some of the same ones as previous (read more)
Column
Strategies for Success for Multinational Corporate Wellness Programs
A Follow-up to the 3rd Annual Corporate Wellness Conference & 2nd Annual Global Benefits Conference’s 2011 Educational Session (read more)
Mental Health As Part of Corporate Wellness Programs
Today’s corporate wellness programs tend to focus on helping employees improve their health by creating clinical improvement initiatives around cert (read more)
The Truth About Responsibility
Responsibility gets a bad rap. “Who is responsible?”, is often accompanied by the familiar tune of “Not me.” (read more)
Worksite Wellness
Balancing Corporate and Personal Responsibility
Balancing Corporate and Personal Responsibility (read more)
The Role of Education in Health and Wellness Programs
All across America, corporations are implementing Health & Wellness programs, seeing the immense potential in having a healthier, more productive work (read more)
A Healthy Government Workplace
Is that what people think when that phrase is mentioned? Why is that thinking so pervasive? Is the government the toughest fight yet for workplace w (read more)
Wellness: Personal Freedom or Employer Mandate?
Several recent industry surveys confirm that employee wellness plan implementation is on the rise, particularly the use of “results-based” (read more)
Voluntary Benefits
2011 Leadership Awards Recipient Profile
The Voluntary Benefits Association (VBA), in conjunction with the Voluntary Benefits Magazine (VBM), recognize a select group of individuals each year (read more)
New Communication Channels Can Help BAs Eliminate Voluntary Benefit Confusion
n today’s evolving health benefits industry, constant cuts are being made to help control costs. One area where resources are being added, however, (read more)
NCFlex article for Voluntary Benefits Magazine, January 2012.
With the current state of the economy, today’s employees find themselves depending on voluntary benefits more than anytime in recent history. (read more)
New Resolve for the New Year Update your communication strategies for 2012
As 2012 is underway and employees’ new health benefits have taken effect, take a moment and reflect on this past year’s open enrollment efforts (read more)
Getting Together: Inter-Company Marketing Group Finds Interest, Activity in Insurance Strategic Alliances
Two-thirds of life, health and benefits insurance market participants have added revenue to their firms in the past three years by engaging in strateg (read more)
Self Funding
[Case study] Biometric Screening Boosts Participation in Corporate Wellness Programs
Two thirds of all U.S. companies offer wellness programs that include smoking cessation programs, nutrition advice and gym memberships. (read more)
Visual Estimation of Effort: RIP
The functional capacity evaluation (FCE) is the oft-overlooked segue to unwarranted diagnostic testing, extended and unnecessary treatment and indemni (read more)
HSAs Vs HRAs –Self Funding Byline
The past few years have been tumultuous for both the economy and healthcare industry – and it seems it is not over yet. With unemployment hovering a (read more)
Consumption Plans That Work
As I write this article I imagine a think tank environment somewhere in Washington with some completely dissociated genius who will advise our lawmake (read more)
Keep your Identity Safe in the New Year!
Each year millions of people are the victims of identity theft in the United States. Unfortunately, these crimes are rising drastically due to the ec (read more)
The Baby Boomer Advisor as a Student
We are all familiar with the Baby Boomer Phenomenon and how it will affect the products and services needed for our clientele, but I would like to pre (read more)
Hottest Voluntary Employee Benefit works well with Self Funding under Health Care Reform
Many employers are looking for ways to provide better benefits during this period of uncertainty with Health Care Reform. (read more)
Health Care Reform
Innovation in Healthcare
Healthcare Reform is underway in the United States. The rapid pace of this overhaul, compounded by complex and unpredictable economic and societal tre (read more)
Summary of Final Rule on Medical Loss Ratio
The Affordable Care Act enacted on March 23, 2010, requires that health insurance issuers provide rebates to enrollees when their spending for the ben (read more)
Improving Health Plan Cost and MLR attainment with eProcurement
eProcurement: A uniform and centrally controlled paperless, web-based enterprise process that tightly integrates procurement, accounts payable and a (read more)
Private Health Exchange; Fad or Real Solution Predictions for Employers in 2012
As the New Year kicks off and as we reflect back on 2011, there is little doubt that health insurance remains a principal issue for employers. (read more)
Collaboration with Payers: Critical for Accountable Care Organizations
This study intends to recognize the importance of Payer Collaboration for ACOs to gain the competitive advantage. Payers have expertise in most of (read more)
Recent Interviews
Interview with James Priebe, Vice President of Financial Services, OptumHealth
An early advocate of consumer-directed health plans and debit card use with health accounts, (Listen)
Interview with Carla Hall, Executive Chef and Owner, Alchemy by Carla Hall; Scott McClintock, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Marketing, Alere Health
America fell in love with Carla Hall’s heart-felt approach as she cooked her way into the finals on season five of the award-winning Bravo show, (Listen)
