Day: November 25, 2014

Medical Executive Post Publishes RiskManagers.us White Paper

The PPACA [Game Changer for Health Care Financing]

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Editors

The fuel which fires the self-funded engine of employee health and welfare plans

[By William Rusteberg]

A SPECIAL ME-P REPORT

PP-ACA Taxes for 2015

Introduction

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a fundamental impact on health care financing in this country. It has effectively provided added incentives for plan sponsors to consider modified self-funding arrangements for their employee health and welfare plans in lieu of fully-insured plans. The advantages of doing so are clear.

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More States To Offer Work Comp “Opt-Out”?

Summary:

A national coalition has formed to take the benefits achieved in Texas and anticipated in Oklahoma and spread them to other states.

As we are all too familiar, the handling of workers’ compensation is dictated by statutes in all states. Only Texas and Oklahoma offer the freedom to “opt out” of the statute, and their approaches are quite different.

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