by Ed Fensholt and Ruhe Wadud | October 5, 2021 | Benefits Administration, Compliance Services, HIPAA, The Coronavirus
Federal authorities, in two new announcements, have validated employers’ use of healthcare plan-related wellness programs to incent employees to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine and confirmed that the HIPAA privacy rules do not prevent employers from asking employees or...
by Ed Fensholt | August 3, 2021 | Benefits Administration, Compliance Services, Health Reform, Reporting and Disclosure
Start lining up a payroll and/or ACA reporting vendor now The IRS has proposed two significant changes to electronic filing requirements for various information returns including not just the Forms 1094-C and 1095-C filings required of many employers by the Affordable...
by Suzanne Bach | January 12, 2021 | Benefits Administration, Compliance Services, State and Local Issues
Well, 2021 is off to a contentious start politically, and coronavirus infections are surging again, but we have good news from California! The state’s taxing authority, the Franchise Tax Board (FTB), has extended or effectively extended the deadlines in 2021 for...
by Jay Kirschbaum | December 4, 2019 | Benefits Administration, Compliance Services, ERISA
Cross-plan offsetting is a common practice among insurance carriers and third-party administrators (TPAs) that can put employers at risk. Briefly, cross-plan offsetting occurs where the insurer or TPA overpays a healthcare provider on a claim submitted to Plan A....
by Jay Kirschbaum | January 24, 2019 | Benefits Administration, DOL, ERISA, State and Local Issues
A recently released information letter[1] from the US Department of Labor (DOL) raises an arcane issue around wage withholding laws. It also highlights the differences between the federal and state legislative and regulatory views and makes clear the ways in which the...
by Aaron Soltz and Brad Mandacina | December 11, 2018 | Benefits Administration, HR-Payroll, Lockton HR Technology
In part one of AI for HR tech, the authors discussed what artificial intelligence (AI) is and how it is being used to reshape recruiting in an ever-changing HR technology landscape. In part two, the authors take a deeper dive into how AI can expand to human capital...
