This presentation reviews: what information must be protected, what policies and procedures need to be in place, what disclosures have to be given to employees, what agreements have to be in place for business associates, and what breach procedures have to be followed.
This webinar covers a basic review of the requirements under ERISA, including: what is an ERISA benefit, what documentation requirements have to be met, what disclosure requirements have to be met, what reporting requirements need to be met, what is a fiduciary, and what are other requirements.
This webinar covers: information that has to be collected | specific codes to use | pitfalls in completing the forms | changes to the final forms and instructions.
Keeping Up to Date With Wellness Regulations 2015benefitexpress
Learn about the latest developments in wellness programs. A review of EOCC's legal action against wellness programs will be covered and steps to avoid legal action will be discussed.
Cadillac Tax for Employers 101 - How to Avoid Penalties?benefitexpress
This webinar covers: what coverages are subject to the tax, how the excise tax is determined, what adjustments will be available in determining the tax, and who collects the tax.
Employee vs. Independent Contractor - How to Differentiate and Avoid Penalties?benefitexpress
This presentation reviews: which factors the IRS uses to determine common law employee status | how does this affect compliance with ACA | what penalties may apply.
This presentation reviews: what information must be protected, what policies and procedures need to be in place, what disclosures have to be given to employees, what agreements have to be in place for business associates, and what breach procedures have to be followed.
This webinar covers a basic review of the requirements under ERISA, including: what is an ERISA benefit, what documentation requirements have to be met, what disclosure requirements have to be met, what reporting requirements need to be met, what is a fiduciary, and what are other requirements.
This webinar covers: information that has to be collected | specific codes to use | pitfalls in completing the forms | changes to the final forms and instructions.
Keeping Up to Date With Wellness Regulations 2015benefitexpress
Learn about the latest developments in wellness programs. A review of EOCC's legal action against wellness programs will be covered and steps to avoid legal action will be discussed.
Cadillac Tax for Employers 101 - How to Avoid Penalties?benefitexpress
This webinar covers: what coverages are subject to the tax, how the excise tax is determined, what adjustments will be available in determining the tax, and who collects the tax.
Employee vs. Independent Contractor - How to Differentiate and Avoid Penalties?benefitexpress
This presentation reviews: which factors the IRS uses to determine common law employee status | how does this affect compliance with ACA | what penalties may apply.
This presentation covers how Medicare affects employer health coverage in: Providing opt out amounts | Paying for Medicare for active employees | Electing COBRA
Staying Up to Date on Required Health Care Reportingbenefitexpress
This presentation reviews:
• When temporary employees become your employees
• The factors the government uses to determine employment status
• The steps you can take to avoid these employees becoming your employees
• Consequences under Health Care Reform if it is determined that they are your employees
Completing ACA Reporting for Employers With Self-Insured Coveragebenefitexpress
This presentation reviews how to complete Forms 1094-C and 1095-C for employers with self-insured coverage, in addition to: What codes to use in lines 14 and 16 of Form 1095-C | What boxes should be checked on line 22 of Form 1094-C | How Form 1094-C has to be completed if your employer is a member of a controlled group | Reporting for COBRA participants, retirees, and other non-employees for self-insured coverage
Administering Health & Welfare Plans: Common Compliance Questionsbenefitexpress
This presentation reviews common questions regarding all aspects of administrating welfare plans. The discussion includes topics such as: COBRA | Medicare | Health FSAs | HRAs | ERISA.
This webinar reviews the following requirements:
• Reporting health coverage on form W-2
• Information reporting of minimum essential coverage (insurers and employers that self-insure)
• Information reporting of employer-sponsored coverage (applicable large employers)
• Annual report on self-insured plans (using information from form 5500s)
• Transparency in coverage reporting and cost-sharing disclosures
This webinar is important for any employer or advisor who wants to be prepared for these requirements.
How Does the Repeal of DOMA Affect Healthcarebenefitexpress
This webinar will review what an employer must do to comply with the Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It will review what procedures an employer has to put in place and which documents need to be changed.
Health Plan Identifier! What is it and Why Do You Need It?benefitexpress
This webinar answers the following questions:
• What is a health plan identifer?
• Who has to get one?
• When is it used?
• How do you get it?
• What happens if the health plans do not get one?
This presentation reviews - how to determine employee eligibility, what are the qualifying reasons to take FMLA, notice requirements when employee requests leave, what coverage must continue while employee is on leave, and what if employee does not return from leave.
This educational webinar reviews all of the requirements that an employer must meet to comply with HIPAA Privacy.
The webinar covers the following topics:
• What health information must be protected by the employer
• What steps an employer must take to comply (forms and procedures)
• What penalties will be imposed by the federal government if an employer does not comply
• What steps an employer must take if any information is disclosed improperly
• What agreements must be in place for an employer's outside vendors to comply
Keeping Up to Date With Wellness Regulationsbenefitexpress
Learn about the latest developments in wellness programs. A review of EOCC's legal action against wellness programs will be included and steps to avoid legal action will be discussed.
This webinar covers:
• What are the new transition rules?
• Changes to the Employer Mandate
• Changes to COBRA notice
• What is new with W-2 Form and reporting
• What has been repealed or changed?
• When will new non discrimination rules take effect?
Webinar: Mid-Year Election Changes for Cafeteria Plansbenefitexpress
Let's talk about cafeteria plans. When can participants make election changes?
While cafeteria plans can be a great option for employees wishing to pick and choose benefits based on cost, when and how to facilitate election changes outside of open enrollment can be tricky to navigate for employers. As the use of cafeteria plans continue to grow, we take a deeper look at the rules and regulations of these plans, particularly as they pertain to mid-year election changes.
COVID-19 Health & Welfare: Compliance for Employersbenefitexpress
As part of our continuing ERISA Compliance series, we covered such compliance topics and more in our April 9th webinar discussing COVID-19 and updates from the IRS and DOL concerning the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
This presentation covers how Medicare affects employer health coverage in: Providing opt out amounts | Paying for Medicare for active employees | Electing COBRA
Staying Up to Date on Required Health Care Reportingbenefitexpress
This presentation reviews:
• When temporary employees become your employees
• The factors the government uses to determine employment status
• The steps you can take to avoid these employees becoming your employees
• Consequences under Health Care Reform if it is determined that they are your employees
Completing ACA Reporting for Employers With Self-Insured Coveragebenefitexpress
This presentation reviews how to complete Forms 1094-C and 1095-C for employers with self-insured coverage, in addition to: What codes to use in lines 14 and 16 of Form 1095-C | What boxes should be checked on line 22 of Form 1094-C | How Form 1094-C has to be completed if your employer is a member of a controlled group | Reporting for COBRA participants, retirees, and other non-employees for self-insured coverage
Administering Health & Welfare Plans: Common Compliance Questionsbenefitexpress
This presentation reviews common questions regarding all aspects of administrating welfare plans. The discussion includes topics such as: COBRA | Medicare | Health FSAs | HRAs | ERISA.
This webinar reviews the following requirements:
• Reporting health coverage on form W-2
• Information reporting of minimum essential coverage (insurers and employers that self-insure)
• Information reporting of employer-sponsored coverage (applicable large employers)
• Annual report on self-insured plans (using information from form 5500s)
• Transparency in coverage reporting and cost-sharing disclosures
This webinar is important for any employer or advisor who wants to be prepared for these requirements.
How Does the Repeal of DOMA Affect Healthcarebenefitexpress
This webinar will review what an employer must do to comply with the Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It will review what procedures an employer has to put in place and which documents need to be changed.
Health Plan Identifier! What is it and Why Do You Need It?benefitexpress
This webinar answers the following questions:
• What is a health plan identifer?
• Who has to get one?
• When is it used?
• How do you get it?
• What happens if the health plans do not get one?
This presentation reviews - how to determine employee eligibility, what are the qualifying reasons to take FMLA, notice requirements when employee requests leave, what coverage must continue while employee is on leave, and what if employee does not return from leave.
This educational webinar reviews all of the requirements that an employer must meet to comply with HIPAA Privacy.
The webinar covers the following topics:
• What health information must be protected by the employer
• What steps an employer must take to comply (forms and procedures)
• What penalties will be imposed by the federal government if an employer does not comply
• What steps an employer must take if any information is disclosed improperly
• What agreements must be in place for an employer's outside vendors to comply
Keeping Up to Date With Wellness Regulationsbenefitexpress
Learn about the latest developments in wellness programs. A review of EOCC's legal action against wellness programs will be included and steps to avoid legal action will be discussed.
This webinar covers:
• What are the new transition rules?
• Changes to the Employer Mandate
• Changes to COBRA notice
• What is new with W-2 Form and reporting
• What has been repealed or changed?
• When will new non discrimination rules take effect?
Webinar: Mid-Year Election Changes for Cafeteria Plansbenefitexpress
Let's talk about cafeteria plans. When can participants make election changes?
While cafeteria plans can be a great option for employees wishing to pick and choose benefits based on cost, when and how to facilitate election changes outside of open enrollment can be tricky to navigate for employers. As the use of cafeteria plans continue to grow, we take a deeper look at the rules and regulations of these plans, particularly as they pertain to mid-year election changes.
COVID-19 Health & Welfare: Compliance for Employersbenefitexpress
As part of our continuing ERISA Compliance series, we covered such compliance topics and more in our April 9th webinar discussing COVID-19 and updates from the IRS and DOL concerning the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
Plan Sponsor Webinar: Navigating COVID-19 for Employersbenefitexpress
In this webinar, we take a deeper look into how the novel coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, but changing the way we work. From remote work environments, FMLA, contract agreements and more, we discuss how to navigate the changing workforce during this time of uncertainty, and answer questions to help you make the best decisions for the health and safety of your employees.
Medicare & Employer Health Coverage - a Coordination Conversationbenefitexpress
Let's talk about Medicare and Employer Health Coverage. The rules on coordinating Medicare and employer coverage can be complex. How it complements other programs (such as COBRA, HSAs and the ACA) are also areas of question for both employees and their employers.
Part of our ERISA Compliance Series, this webinar is hosted by ERISA Attorney Larry Grudzien and moderated by chief marketing officer Julia Goebel. This webinar will discuss the top wage and hour issues that may be unknowingly lurking within your company.
The Affordable Care Act touches the lives of most Americans. In fact, nearly 21 million will be at risk if Obamacare is struck down, and may even lose health insurance completely if the law is ruled unconstitutional. This webinar will discuss what the outcome may be if ACA is repealed.
Watch our free one-hour webinar reviewing the rules for the new Individual Coverage HRA and the new Excepted Benefit HRA (ICHRA and EBHRA).
In June 2019, Treasury, DOL and HHS released final regulations that are effective for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2020. These regulations created two new HRAs, Individual Coverage HRAs (ICHRA) and Excepted Benefit HRAs (EBHRA).
These new HRAs will be subject to ERISA and COBRA, but will not be subject to the nondiscrimination rules under Code Section 105(h). Any employer can offer these new HRAs to their employees. They can be offered to common law employees, but cannot be offered to self-employed individuals, partners and more than 2% S-Corporation shareholders.
Facilitated by ERISA attorney Larry Grudzien, and moderated by Chief Marketing Officer Julia Goebel, this webinar will cover the following:
-Why are these new HRAs so important?
-Which employees can be included or excluded
-What documentation is needed to be completed by employers to adopt them
-What reporting and disclosure requirements must be met
-What types of expenses can be reimbursed
-The pros and cons of establishing and participating in these new HRAs for employers
In today's multi-generational workforce, health and wellness benefits are weighted equally with salary expectations. This is why it's important for small and large businesses alike to embrace health and wellness benefits to recruit top talent as well as retain valued employees.
While offering these benefits has been shown to improve employee engagement and productivity, it comes with some challenges. This webinar reviews common questions human resources professionals confront when offering health and welfare benefits to employees.
Facilitated by ERISA attorney Larry Grudzien, this webinar covers the following:
- Questions Surrounding Tax
- Reporting Disclosures
- ERISA, COBRA & FMLA
- Workers Compensation
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Benefits are a critical piece of an employee compensation package, with health care benefits reigning most important. Whether you're already offering these benefits or considering adding them to your benefits offerings, view our webinar to learn more and remain competitive in the talent marketplace.
How to Administer Wellness Programs in Today's Regulatory Environmentbenefitexpress
Are you struggling to make sense of the recent legislative updates surrounding employer sponsored wellness programs? Perhaps you are trying to decide whether to continue with current wellness plans, modify your plans without guidance from the EEOC, postpone new wellness programs or discontinue them all together.
It’s a complicated landscape ripe with several options for “next steps” for employees and plan sponsors of wellness plans in 2019 — with perhaps the biggest barrier of all being that employers cannot measure the risk of wellness plans at this time.
To help guide you through this maze of options, watch our one-hour webinar on-demand to learn what rules remain after the EEOC’s regulations were found invalid and what rules have to be met in 2019 in order to offer a valid wellness program.
How to administer wellness programs in today's regulatory environment
This webinar covers:
Requirements under HIPAA
Requirements under the Internal Revenue Code
Requirements under ERISA
Requirements under GINA
Requirements under ADA
Requirements under ACA
HIPAA Training: Privacy Review and Audit Survival Guidebenefitexpress
HIPAA Privacy Overview for Employers. Review a helpful checklist of requirements an employer must adopt to stay compliant with HIPAA and to survive an audit by Health and Human Services (HHS).
Webinar | Texas vs. United States - The Repeal of ACA?benefitexpress
Recently a Federal District Court held in Texas, et al. v. United States of America, et al. that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional, and that the other provisions in the ACA are invalid because they are inseverable from the individual mandate.
Our ACA compliance webinar reviews:
- What the Federal District Court decided.
- The basis for the decision.
- The impact of the decision.
- What may happen over the next months or year.
- What Congress may do to address the situation.
Healthcare Check-in: The Latest Developments in Health and Welfare Plansbenefitexpress
We work in an exciting industry – which means quick changes are the norm, and adaptability is a necessity. Keep your compliance plans up to date with a download of all legislative changes since our last update webinar. This webinar covered legislation that's passed in the last six months, what's on the way, and what it means for your organization.
Webinar | From Analysis to Action: How Personalization Can Lower Employer Cos...benefitexpress
Personalization is everywhere – from Amazon to Spotify, and is now the expectation for consumers. Personalization in benefits elections is also the new normal, thanks to decision support tools and data analytics. Modern decision support tools draw on data points including demographics, preferences and medical need, all highly relevant towards personalization ... as opposed to the "one-size fits all" modeler of the past that relied on strict business rules.
Using data to advise clients can be a game changer for a broker. With analytics, you can quantify your benefit plan suggestions based on hard evidence, and advise based on unbiased data versus mere opinion. But where does this data come from? And how do you know which data to use?
This webinar shows how decision support tools can provide data to simplify health benefit decisions, allowing employees to feel more confident in their decisions, leading to lower costs for employers and client retention for brokers as a result.
In this webinar, brokers will learn how decision support analytics can reinforce their role as a trusted adviser by:
• Helping employer clients understand which health plans and programs are being used and which ones are the most cost-effective
• Minimizing the number of employees who are over-insured or under-insured, helping to save on annual and long-term costs for healthcare premiums, leading to better client retention over time
• Supporting healthy employee behaviors, resulting in lower health care expenses overall
FSAs can do some heavy lifting for your benefits plan – they allow employees to save pretax dollars for healthcare costs without the price tag of other financial wellness initiatives.
However, many HR professionals lack a deep understanding of the compliance requirements to offer and administer a well-rounded program for their employees. Engage your employees with a financial wellness benefit that works.
Key webinar takeaways:
- How different types of FSAs interact with benefit plans as a whole
- FSA and reimbursement limits for 2018
- Legal implications of offering an FSA to employees
- Best practices for administering a successful FSA benefit plan
Webinar | COBRA Pitfalls: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Thembenefitexpress
Leaving the organization isn't the end of the benefits cycle for employees. This webinar focuses on how to avoid one of the most common compliance pitfalls in benefits ... COBRA administration.
Some of the top takeaways were:
• The basics of successful COBRA administration
• Required notices associated with COBRA coverage
• How Medicare interacts with COBRA for employees and dependents
• Penalties for noncompliance
Smooth and successful off-boarding of departing employees is as important as well-planned on-boarding of new hires. Log on to your roadmap for a smooth ride into COBRA compliance.
Webinar | Clients Calling “Mayday”? Design a Benefits Technology Strategy to ...benefitexpress
Benefits administration can be a delicate, and even difficult balancing act for employers. From managing costs and administrative demands, to maintaining compliance, and integrating with workforce wellness plans, it’s not surprising that three in four employers called “mayday” and turned to benefits administration outsourcing in 2017. With the administrative difficulty level rising, and advisory competition increasing, it is now critical to become the partner of choice to relieve this distress. But how?
Join Scott Evans, chief product officer at benefitexpress, this May Day, as he guides benefits advisers through the top considerations for building, buying or borrowing benefits administration technology solutions to offer clients. If you and your clients have benefits technology questions, Scott has answers.
Webinar takeaways include:
• How to assess your readiness: learn and identify the benefits administration business model that is right for you
• Key criteria for evaluating potential benefits technology partners, plus a valuable checklist
• How to create a benefits technology strategy for your business which is seen as an imperative – not a “value-add” – by your clients
• Tips for staying competitive in a changing market, using your solutions portfolio
Webinar | Training the Technique: Advanced ERISA Compliancebenefitexpress
If your organization offers any form of retirement plan, chances are you have questions about ERISA. This advanced compliance training will go beyond the basics of the requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Attend our one-hour training to learn:
- Which employers are affected by ERISA regulations
- Which benefits plans are subject to ERISA
- What documentation employers must provide to prove
compliance
- Penalties for noncompliance
ERISA attorney Larry Grudzien will share industry inside knowledge to help participants ensure total compliance with ERISA regulations.