PPACA September Milestone Approaches

Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Andy Kuhn

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 »

Will Your 2011 Health Plan Compromise Grandfathered Status?

Thursday, August 5, 2010 by Andy Kuhn

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 »

Employers Healthcare Costs Projected to Rise 9% in 2011

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Andy Kuhn

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 »

Grandfathering Impact to Your Health Plan

Friday, June 4, 2010 by Andy Kuhn

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...
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Small Business Employee Medical Benefits -- 2010 and Beyond

Friday, April 2, 2010 by Andy Kuhn
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 »

Human Resource Issues

Monday, March 1, 2010 by Human Resources

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...

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Services Employers Need

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 by Human Resources

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...
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Working to Make Your Business More Profitable

Thursday, June 4, 2009 by Andy Kuhn


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 »

Streamline Your Employee Benefits

Monday, June 1, 2009 by Andy Kuhn




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
The time, cost and energy that you... Read More »

Health plan usage data

Friday, May 1, 2009 by Stephen Day
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 »

benefit strategies for tough times

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 by Stephen Day
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 »

FLEX Medical and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts

Monday, April 27, 2009 by Stephen Day
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 »

Life insurance in today's world

Thursday, April 23, 2009 by Stephen Day

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...

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Aflac Named Top Brand in Insurance and Financial Services

Friday, April 17, 2009 by Stephen Day
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 »

Payroll Outsourcing

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by Payroll Manager
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 »

CLAIM SUCCESS STORY AT MANAGEMENT 2000

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Stephen Day

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...

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Top Notch Employee Benefits Insurance

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 by Andy Kuhn
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 »

March Madness

Friday, March 27, 2009 by Andy Kuhn

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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