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Willis Health Care Reform Survey: What Employers Think
The Willis Human Capital Practice surveyed more than 2,300 employers in a wide range business sizes, industries, and geographic regions to learn how things were going in their preparation for Health...
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However the Supreme Court rules about Health Care Reform this month, employers will have to figure out how the ruling and subsequent political fallout will affect their group medical plans. Here is our...
View ArticleDon’t Wait for Election Day to Prepare for Health Reform
Some employers were hoping the Supreme Court would make PPACA go away. Don’t make the same mistake with the fall elections.
View ArticleHealth Care Transformation is Underway but the Industry Needs to Work out the...
Even before the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of health care reform, a transformation in the health care industry was already underway as health care organizations began to consider what...
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Preparing for Federal Agencies on the Prowl
As the IRS, U.S. Dept. of Labor and other federal agencies continue to step up enforcement of employer practices and employee benefit plans, the potential for an organization to be subject to an audit...
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Our Scariest Risks II: The Wrath of Risk
With Frankenstorm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, and Halloween approaching, it’s time for the WillisWire team to sit around our screens and share the terrifying tales that keep our clients awake...
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Post-Election: Employers Need to Review Options for PPACA in 2014
Whether you are red or blue, we now know it is unlikely the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will be repealed or significantly altered with President Obama being reelected and the...
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Employers Don’t Know What Health Care Reform is Costing Them
While many employers believe that health care reform will not increase costs, more than half of them haven’t even started to calculate those costs. So said this year’s survey of U.S. employers about...
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Re-Engineering Your Hospital Risk Management Department for a Post Health...
In the world of decreasing reimbursements, risk managers of not-for-profit hospitals will have to work diligently to show their value to the organization.
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Thoughts from Bermuda: The 2013 CAS Conference on Reinsurance
Every year reinsurance actuaries and other professionals gather to collaborate and discuss a wide range of issues facing the reinsurance industry. The event is sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial...
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Innovation, Strategy and Market Disruption – Re-thinking Health Care in a...
In this year's annual Willis Health Care Forum, keynote speaker Dr. Michael Raynor goes into great detail about how health care organizations must focus on innovation.
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Health Care Reform and Private Exchanges: How are They Connected?
Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) mandate that larger employers provide health care coverage for their workers or pay penalties has been delayed until 2015, employers have...
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Scariest Risks of 2013
Halloween season always puts us in a dark frame of mind here at WillisWire, reflecting not on ghosts and goblins but on all the scary risks we help our clients prepare for. This year, 18 of our...
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Survey: Employers Appear Committed to Providing Medical Benefits, Despite...
Our 2014 Health Care Reform Survey suggest that, despite concerns over health care reform, organizations plan to continue employer-sponsored health plans.
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Checkup Time for Health Care Professionals
Change in U.S. health care often seems to be moving at the pace of an ambulance with its lights and sirens on. Fast. We hear a lot these days about the changes that health insurance buyers are facing...
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Hobby Lobby Decision Limits PPACA’s Contraceptive Mandate
Employers who have religious convictions that would prohibit them from paying for contraceptive services have gotten some help from the Supreme Court today in the long-awaited Hobby Lobby case. The...
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Contradictory Obamacare Rulings Leave Employers Wondering
Two circuit courts have come to different conclusions regarding a key component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”): whether subsidies are available for coverage on the...
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Analysis: What Next, After the Conflicting Obamacare Decisions?
Tuesday, two conflicting circuit court decisions reflected on the ability of the IRS to direct taxpayer financial support to those Americans who enrolled in public exchange coverage. Some employers...
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Trends to Watch in the Health Care and Benefit Space
Recently, I spoke on Goldman Sachs’ Annual Managed Care State of the Market call, to offer investors a front-line, mid-year view of industry pricing and product trends, and to discuss issues facing...
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Insured Employer Medical Plans – What to do With the MLR Rebate?
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) medical insurance contracts (but not for self-funded plans) for the large group market have to return premiums that exceed 85% (80% for...
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