by Ed Fensholt | July 9, 2020 | Employer Mandate, Essential Health Benefits, Preventive Care
The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration a major, but perhaps temporary, victory in the long-simmering fight over whether employer-sponsored group health plans can be required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide no-cost contraceptives to their...
by | March 9, 2016 | Health Risk Solutions, Preventive Care, Workplace Wellness
As employer sponsored programs gain momentum, more and more creative solutions are being offered to help motivate employees toward changing behaviors. In an effort to improve employee health, fitness devices have quickly become a powerful way to incent goal setting...
by Larry Levy, MD | February 25, 2016 | Health Risk Solutions, Preventive Care, Workplace Wellness
If, like me, you’ve been waiting for some good news related to the Zika virus, we finally have some. A rapid test for detecting the virus has been developed by two major Texas health centers, according to an announcement they made earlier this week. The test offers...
by | November 13, 2015 | Health Risk Solutions, Preventive Care
Whether we want to think about it or not, flu season is upon us. Fortunately flu activity is low in the US right now, but according to tracking managed by the CDC, there are early signs that activity is beginning to increase. And we all know what that means: messages...
by Mark Holloway | October 28, 2015 | Mental Health Parity, Preventive Care, Wellness
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), US Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the three agencies responsible for policing everyone’s two favorite laws, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the federal mental health parity law,...
by Scott Behrens | July 22, 2015 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Preventive Care
In regulations dated July 14, 2015, federal agencies took the next step in addressing religious objections to coverage of contraceptives by issuing final regulations under which certain closely held, for-profit businesses may avoid a requirement that their health...
