Employee Benefits

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.

UnitedHealthcare recently announced it will eliminate out-of-pocket health care costs for insulin and other emergency use drugs for fully insured group health plan members.

Signed into law in late 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) created new requirements for health insurance brokers and consultants to disclose any direct or indirect compensation they may receive for referral of services to ERISA-covered group health plan …

On Aug. 1, 2022, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2022-34 to index the contribution percentages in 2023 for determining the affordability of an employer’s plan under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In its spring regulatory agenda, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its plans to issue a proposed overtime rule in October 2022.