Enrollment

U.S. employers used more technology-based communication with employees during the last open enrollment and increased their face-to-face communication with employees as well, according to a new Towers Watson survey.

PERMA, an alternative-risk solution provider, has chosen Benefit Express to electronically administer benefits for its Health Joint Insurance Fund segment, which is accessible to governmental departments and school districts in New Jersey.

Employers fear the federal guidance on health reform they got last enrollment season wasn't enough to clearly inform employees about all the changes to their health benefits.

Benefit Express, a benefit administration outsourcing service provider, released a My Benefit Express solution process enhancement, providing the built-in capability to avoid health care claim payments for ineligible dependents.

Eighty percent of employers expect their non-employee workforce, which consists of consultants, independent contractors, temporary employees and project teams, to remain the same or increase in size over the next year.

HR is busy trying to put out the fires started by confusion and disgruntled employees, and amidst it all, are often missing opportunities to gain more participation in their benefits plans.

In Woburn, Mass.-based HighRoads' annual survey of Fortune 1,000 companies, it was found that 75 percent of employers plan to address the impact of health care reform in their open enrollment materials.

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) slammed pharmacy benefit managers for pursuing profit over client interests after a report from AARP found retail prices of brand-name drugs skyrocketed in 2009.