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Letters From CMS (Medicare) to Employers Regarding Group Health Plan Reporting Are Causing Some Confusion
Many employers are receiving letters from CMS (Medicare) requesting information and it’s causing some confusion. The actual title of the letter reads “Requirement to Submit the Group Health Plan Report for the IRS/SSA/CMS Data Project”. Here’s an overview that may...
If You Want A Pragmatic Understanding of the Opioid Epidemic You May Want to Listen to This
This post follows up on last week’s primer on how abuse of prescription pain medications has led to what’s now recognized as a true national crisis. The new podcast Embedded provides a riveting inside look at how the use of one particularly powerful prescription...
Quietly Lurking: 2017 Obamacare Waiver Could Open the Door for States to Do Their Own Thing
We’re keeping an eye on it; and, apparently so are many of the states. The healthcare reform law includes a waiver that, starting in 2017, would let states take federal dollars now invested in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and redirect them and...
Lots of Medicare Questions From Employers and Employees This Year
...Here are the ABC’s (and Part D) For whatever reason – aging workforce, increasing costs, heightened awareness because of ACA – we’re getting lots and lots of questions from clients and their employees about Medicare this year. Way more than in years past. The vast...
Your employees. Are they medicaid eligible?
There are many opinions about Medicaid expansion and my post is opinion free. Employers across all sectors of the economy are likely to have Medicaid eligible employees/dependents in their population. Many do not know they are Medicaid eligible and some may be on the...
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