Top 10 New Hire Onboarding Tips | Pennsylvania Employee Benefits

Human resources practitioners look for methods to make the traditionally boring process of new hire onboarding a little more exciting. While we are limited in finding ways to make completing compliance documents such as W-4 and I-9 forms enthralling, here are some suggestions on how to add a bit of fun and excitement to your … Continued

Question of the Month: How is PPACA’s “IRS Form W-2 safe harbor” regarding affordability calculated? | Conshohocken Employee Benefits

By Danielle Capilla, Chief Compliance Officer at United Benefit Advisors Answer: Under PPACA, coverage is considered affordable if it costs less than 9.5 percent of an employee’s household income. Because employers are often unaware of an employee’s household income, there are three safe harbors that an employer can use to determine affordability. One is the … Continued

Two PPACA Taxes Might Get the Ax | Pennsylvania Benefit Broker

By Jennifer Kupper, In-house Counsel for iaCONSULTING, a UBA Partner Firm Health Insurance Providers Fee Section 9010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) imposes a fee on each covered entity engaged in the business of providing health insurance for United States health risks. This is known as the Health Insurance Providers (HIP) … Continued

Cost Sharing Limits Changing for 2016 | Pennsylvania Benefit Broker

By Danielle Capilla, Chief Compliance Officer at United Benefit Advisors In the Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2016 Final Rule issued in February 2015, federal agencies included a clarification that annual cost-sharing limitations for self-only coverage apply to all individuals, regardless of whether the individual is covered by a self-only plan or is covered by … Continued

Minority Care

Read why black and Hispanic populations receive poorer-quality health care, at lower-quality hospitals

Holding Health Care Accountable

Earlier this year, technology giant Intel Corp. began an experiment in health care delivery at its largest semiconductor manufacturing facility in Rio Rancho, N.M.

 

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