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Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
A study from the University of Rochester says Medicare Advantage shows more racial disparities when it comes to hospital readmissions than traditional Medicare.
A survey of 502 benefit brokers and 504 employers says the majority of brokers believe themselves to be highly fluent in CDHP benefits, and half of employers make the same claim, but that might be off base.
The combined short-term disability and long-term disability in-force premium was $14.4 billion in 2016 among the 20 companies who contributed to the Milliman survey.
Currently 47 mostly rural counties have no participating issuer on the ACA exchange, but several issuers have indicated they would expand, though they havent yet committed to specific localities.
Americans once again are starting to understand the importance of taking time off from work, but there is still a long way to go, several new surveys show.
Two-thirds of the 3,227 human resource professionals surveyed say they experienced recruiting difficulty and skill shortages for certain types of jobs last year.