For employers operating their group health and welfare plans beginning on or after January 1, 2025, now is the time of the year to prepare for open enrollment. Typically, the focus is on evaluating the services and performance of vendors, renewing rates, and considering design changes. In addition to these items, employers need to address various legal requirements. This Benefits Brief provides a checklist that covers these requirements for the 2025 plan year.
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With Employee Benefits & HR topics regularly in the news, it’s difficult to stay up to date. Our weekly newsletter will help you stay current. Check out this week’s edition.
Workplace injury management involves a range of HR practices to address and mitigate the effects of injuries sustained by employees on the job. This webinar will address direct insurance related costs associated with workplace injuries and give strategies to improve processes, productivity, morale, employee turnover, and absenteeism.
Under the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), group health plan sponsors are required to provide a notice to individuals informing them of the plan’s creditable or non-creditable status. The notice must also provide information on what happens to their group coverage and the impact on their future eligibility if they decide to enroll in Part D coverage. This notice will be proof of prior coverage that can prevent a late penalty assessment.