Employee Benefits

Employee benefits are complex. Consequently, an organization must have the basics— blocking and tackling—down pay, but also continue to innovate and develop new plays to achieve and exceed goals.

Amber Chittenden, formerly vice president of Client Engagement at Apex Benefits, has been promoted to the newly created position of chief client officer.

While it’s difficult to control all the factors that contribute to rising medical costs, here are a few tips to help you stretch your health care dollars.

Apex Benefits has made the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s 16th annual Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces list for small employers.

Plan sponsors must provide the annual disclosure notice to Medicare Part D-eligible individuals before Oct. 15, 2022.

Prior to Apex becoming the strategic advisor, this client also had a near-site clinic available to all members on the medical plan. After a thorough review of clinic data, our team found that the cost per visit exceeded $225 due …

Careful preparation can make your health plan renewals more effective and less painful. Being prepared means knowing the projected risk of your current situation and identifying alternative solutions now — so you can mitigate year-end cost increases.

On Friday August 5, Senate Bill No. 1 (SB1) was signed into law by Indiana Governor Holcomb and becomes effective in the State as of September 15, 2022. This law makes changes to when an abortion may be performed legally …

A workplace accomplice is willing to stand with or act to protect those who are being harassed, excluded, ostracized or otherwise mistreated even if that means suffering professional backlash.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing states to regulate abortion, federal agencies have been issuing new guidance focused on reproductive health care.

The guidance focuses on health care providers’ obligation under the HIPAA Privacy Rule to safeguard the privacy of patients’ protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care, including abortions.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that states can be sued as employers by private individuals under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.