As Employers look ahead to 2011 plan years, they're raising questions to understand the affect health-care reform will have on current and future employee benefits plans. What changes, if any, apply to our group plan? Do I have to may all changes now? Is our plan Grandfathered; if so, does that...Read More »
As Employers look ahead to 2011 plan years, they're raising questions to understand the affect health-care reform will have on current and future employee benefits plans. What changes, if any, apply to our group plan? Do I have to may all changes now? Is our plan Grandfathered; if so, does that...Read More »
Many employers are in the midst of planning for 2011. When looking over operating costs, one area of concern is the expense of offering employee benefits insurance. With the continued uncertainty in the economy and the mounting changes from healthcare reform, it can be a lot to consider.
Many...Read More »
In a time of much uncertainty surrounding the healthcare reform, according to a June 14th PricewaterhouseCoopers, 'Behind the Numbers Report', employer costs are estimated to increase around 9%. The good news is this is a drop of 0.5% from 2010 growth rate. What are the primary contributors?
On...Read More »
Section 1251 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), preserves the ability of consumers to maintain existing coverage by “grandfathering” existing group health or individual plans where individuals were enrolled as of March 23, 2010. In addition, it allows:
- Addition of family...
Are you looking to the future of employee medical benefits in 2010
and beyond? The regulatory and compliance demands are only
going to increase for your small business. That is why many small
business owners are looking to PEOs and their Employee Benefit
Advisors for direction. Just to mention a...Read More »
Employers often wonder what human
resource policies they should 
implement. The topics range from discipline, to employee
medical benefits, to how long they should retain employee
records. Developing these policies can be a time
consuming, difficult task, especially for small employers who are
busy...
In
addition to helping our clients deal with specific employee
relations matters, Management 2000 provides a broad range of
services related to day-to-day operations. Just a few of these
services include:
Benefits:
- Multiple programs for medical, dental, vision and supplemental insurance products;
- COBRA...
At Management 2000 we are always looking for solutions to help you run your business more efficiently and increase your profits.
Recently we have been doing an analysis of turnover for a client that has uncovered several opportunities to save money and time. The key findings were that over 60% of...Read More »
As a business owner do you ever sit back and think what goes into
securing and implementing a quality Employee Benefits Plan?
- Shopping for medical, dental, vision, life, supplemental and 401K
- Implementing each plan
- The administration of each plan
- Bill reconciliation
At Management 2000, one of our Employee Benefit Advisor's
uncovered a recent report from Watson Wyatt Worldwide
which states that on average:
8% of Americans have health Claims in excess of $12,000, These folks make up 70% of the dollars paid on claims paid from health insurance policies
24% of Americans... Read More »
8% of Americans have health Claims in excess of $12,000, These folks make up 70% of the dollars paid on claims paid from health insurance policies
24% of Americans... Read More »
With
health costs skyrocketing and recession revenues contracting,
certain employers have had no choice but to eliminate group health
coverage all together. There are still options, however,
for small employers to put together some
sort of benefit package for their remaining
employees. For one,...Read More »These accounts
,
introduced by the IRS back in the mid '80's, are a terrific
benefit tool to help contain out of pocket medical and dependent
care expenses. The advantage of utilizing this benefit
over deducting these expenses on a personal tax return is that
in most states, you save on five (5)...Read More »
,
introduced by the IRS back in the mid '80's, are a terrific
benefit tool to help contain out of pocket medical and dependent
care expenses. The advantage of utilizing this benefit
over deducting these expenses on a personal tax return is that
in most states, you save on five (5)...Read More »
For most of the past
century, life insurance was a product that was marketed by
agents who went door to door. They reviewed folks needs
across the kitchen table and often came by each month to collect
the premiums. Well, thanks to the internet, price of shoe
leather and what not, this practice has...
AFLAC was recently selected as the top brand in
the insurance and financial servives industry by City Business
Journals Network in 2009. See the full press release at
2009 AFLAC
selected. Management 2000 has consistently offered AFLAC
products as an integral element of our employee benefits...Read More »Interesting how the world is changing...it's getting more and more
difficult to keep up with it all. Here are a few things we at
Management 2000, and Indiana PEO are running into.
What are the payroll tax consequences of payments made to an employee as part of a severance or layoff?
How does wage...Read More »
What are the payroll tax consequences of payments made to an employee as part of a severance or layoff?
How does wage...Read More »
Happy April Fools!. This is Steve Day and Debbie Zapp again with a story about how we, at the top PEO in Indiana, help make sure folks get the proper claims benefit from their policies. An example of this comes from a woman with an AFLAC Short Term Disability policy who had to have a surgery. With...
Read More »Tired of muddling through all those appointments every
year with different brokers, agents, etc. Let Management 2000,
HR Companies, customize a benefits plan for your
employees with top of the line employee medical benefits, dental,
vision and supplemental insurance offerings. As an...Read More »
Well, it's a great time of year. It's always fun following your favorite team in the NCAA tourney. Let's talk about another kind of madness - EMPLOYEE MEDICAL BENEFITS MADNESS! As a small business it can be overwhelming trying to keep up with all that is necessary to implement and administrate an...
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