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Are Health Insurance Costs a Tax Write-Off?
Tax season is in full swing. As a business owner, it is smart to evaluate all tax write-offs, deductions, and credits available. So, what about health insurance? Can health insurance costs be a tax...
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How to Pick the Best Health Insurance Plan - 5 Easy Tips
Picking a health insurance plan can be a daunting task. And yet, as more and more people switch from employer-purchased health insurance to individually-purchased health insurance, it becomes even...
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Using Individual Insurance Plans to Yield Lower Costs and Better Benefits
Every day I hear from small business owners about how their health insurance options are limited, time-consuming, and expensive. In fact, nearly half (2.7 million) small and medium businesses do not...
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Cheap and Quality Health Benefits? [Infographic]
Few small business owners want to feel cheap, however most want to find affordable, efficient business solutions. Health benefits are no different. In a marketplace where expensive group-based health...
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Bottom Line - Is Tax-Free Reimbursement a Better Value Than Cash?
As organizations evaluate health benefits where you reimburse premiums, instead of paying them, it is common to have questions about how a formal, tax-advantaged plan is a better value than giving...
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Small Business Health Insurance Requirements in 2016
Under health care law, there are health insurance requirements for employers of all sizes. Non-compliance with these requirements can lead to costly fees. To help, this article provides a summary of...
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3 Things Making Small Business Health Benefits More Affordable
As small businesses evaluate how to offer affordable health benefits that also meet the benefit expectations of employees, there are three key opportunities to understand and leverage: 1) the...
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Top 10 Employee Questions About Health Benefits
As your small business starts, renews, or changes employee health benefit offerings, employee communication is vital to making your health benefits a success. After all, employees who understand,...
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Top 5 Health Insurance Options for Small Groups in 2016
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in November 2013 under the title, "Top 5 Health Insurance Options for Small Groups in 2014." For many employers and brokers, the Affordable Care Act...
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How Non-Profits Can Offer Health Insurance
Non-profits value providing health benefits to their employees. For many non-profits, however, a traditional group health plan may not be cost effective for employees or for the organization. A...
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Small Business Administration - The Big Opportunity
Businesses at the top of their game seem unstoppable when it comes to attracting and keeping the best talent. They have figured out the magical combination of pay, benefits, and culture and as a...
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Who is Adopting Employer-Funded Individual Health Insurance?
Employer-funded individual health insurance solutions are being adopted by firms nationwide, as an alternative to traditional employer health benefits. This consumer-friendly solution is being...
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The Cost of Family Health Insurance Reimbursement
Nationwide, firms are adopting employer-funded family health insurance as an alternative to traditional employer health benefits. One of the primary reasons for mass adoption by smaller firms is cost...
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A Health Benefits Solution for an Aging Workforce
When all Baby Boomers turn 65 by 2030, Pew Research Center estimates 18 percent of the nation’s population will 65 or over - compared to just 13 percent today. Combined with an increasing retirement...
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How Much Does Group Health Insurance Cost?
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with the most recent group health insurance cost information. The article was originally published in September 2014. As small employers research health...
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14 Employee Retention Strategies Ideas for Nonprofits
The nonprofit sector is an important economic driver. According to the Nonprofit Partnership, nearly 2 million nonprofit organizations employ 10.7 million employees; just over 10 percent of the United...
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Cost Efficiency of Defined Contribution Health Benefits
Compared with offering traditional group health insurance coverage, employers using a defined contribution solution save an average of 57 percent on comparable, comprehensive health benefits. This is...
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Top 5 Health Insurance Options for Nonprofits in 2016
Nonprofit organizations face important decisions about employee health benefits. Executive teams know the importance of health benefits for recruiting and retaining key talent - and yet costs remain a...
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A Health Insurance Solution for Employees in Multiple States
In today’s modern day business environment, it is common for large and small companies alike to expand across state lines or hire remote, out-of-state workers.
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9 FAQs on Small Business Healthcare Relief Act
Over the last several months, the bipartisan Small Business Healthcare Relief Act (SBHRA) has begun to pick up speed with increased coverage and a number of co-sponsors. If passed, the SBHRA will...
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