BenefitsPRO Magazine-August 2014

Vision source list

Charlene Harris

Do your homework before jumping on the self-funding bandwagon

Amber Taufen

Historically, the only employer groups interested in self-funding their health insurance policies were the ones that could absorb the costs of a catastrophic health eventin other words, companies with Fortune 500-level bottom lines.

Voluntary Solutions: Gotta get away

Elizabeth Halkos

The power of vacations is unlimited.

Is this the industry's Steve Jobs?

Kathryn Mayer

Benefitfocus CEO Shawn Jenkins wants to change the way we do benefits.

The ACO Invasion

Nathan Solheim

One part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that's hit American health care like the British Invasion are affordable care organizations, or ACOs.

“Enough about me…”

Brian Hicks

I have a running joke with an old friend. We often go extended periods without connecting, so when we finally do, it's common for her to talk at length about what's been happening in her life.

‘I can see clearly now’

Denis Storey

After years of wrestling with fearsarguably blown way out of proportion by my overactive imaginationI finally broke down last month and got Lasik surgery.

5 benefits of voluntary benefits

Mark Roberts

The days of employer-paid benefits are disappearing faster than a snow cone in Julyespecially when you consider that most companies aren't helping to offset the costs for much more than major medical and physician care for their workers.

PPACA adds auto-enrollment feature

Kathryn Mayer

The majority of those who enrolled in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act plans through the exchanges will be auto-enrolled in the same health plan they selected in 2014 this coming enrollment period, as well as receive the same subsidies, if applicable.

We’re doing investment risk wrong

Christopher Carosa

Risk and return are related.

What I've learned

Peter Westerman

June 24 marked my 9th year owning a brokerage firm in New York City, and in those years, Ive learned a lot.

Brokers highest-ranked PPACA source

Kathryn Mayer

For brokers who think theyre not needed in a PPACA-era health care world, listen up, because there's evidence to the contrary.

PaaS and voluntary benefits

Marty Traynor

Last month's column introduced the importance of PaaSPeople as a Service.

Driving voluntary sales

Bonnie Brazzell and Gil Lowerre

This is the last in our series of columns on the industry results for 2013.

Health savings accounts – 10 years on

compiled by Denis Storey and designed by Joe Schlue

Seeing new value in vision

Greg Glasgow

Gone are the days when Lasik was a mysterious, untested procedure that might make your eyeballs explode a decade down the road.