Voluntary Benefits

Benefits attorneys looked hard at the text of the draft reglations and found interesting wrinkles.

The National Council of Insurance Legislators has created a template for efforts to help employers' cash-for-coverage plans.

The discount coupon site has also added entries for about 600 generic drugs.

One carrier reviewed about four times as many medical and surgical services as the other did.

Local officials can impose a benefits requirement only if a big "benchmark plan" adopts it voluntarily.

Another provision could make contributing to HSAs the only way for a new corporation to use the federal health benefits tax exclusion.