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Why Health Insurance Premium Increases are Not Inevitable for Mid-Sized Companies

Premium hikes for health insurance often seem inevitable for mid-sized companies, but understanding the underlying factors and pursuing alternative strategies can break the cycle. Options such as self-funding, level-funded plans, wellness initiatives, data analysis, and direct provider contracts can all potentially lower costs over time.

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Why EBITDA and Employee Benefits Strategy are Crucial for Mid-Sized Businesses

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For most mid-sized businesses, boosting EBITDA isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. Your EBITDA plays a central role in how your business is valued and can be significantly influenced by your employee benefits strategy.

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Unspoken Health Insurance Costs Impacting Your Business – How to Address Them

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Health insurance is supposed to be a benefit, but for many mid-sized companies, it’s become more of a burden. These hidden costs can add up quickly, quietly draining resources that could be better used to support your team or grow your business.

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Understanding the Real Cost of Employee Turnover and How to Reduce It

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Addressing turnover isn’t a quick fix, but it’s one of the most important long-term moves a company can make to stay competitive and healthy. Even small changes can make a big difference when it comes to keeping employees.

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It’s Time to Post Your OSHA Form 300A

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Employers with 10 or more employees must post their completed OSHA Form 300A by Feb. 1 and keep it posted in their workplace until April 30. The form must be posted where the company usually posts other employee notices, like minimum wage and workplace safety notices. Form 300A summarizes the total number of fatalities, missed

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More Providers Charging for Some Health Portal Services

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As more health services are being rendered through providers’ patient portals and telemedicine, some providers are starting to bill for some of those interactions. A number of health systems around the country have started billing for certain types of messages, largely ones that are involved in clinical assessments or medical history reviews that take more

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Protecting Your Important Data When Employees Leave

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One of the times that your company’s data and intellectual property are most at risk is when you have a departing employee, be that on their own accord or when they are fired or laid off. With employees maybe feeling disgruntled after being let go, on the way out some of them will pocket important

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Employers Prioritizing Enhanced Benefits in New Year, Not Cost-Cutting

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Despite group health insurance costs expected to rise 5.4% this year, the tight labor market is forcing employers to prioritize enhancing benefits over cost-cutting measures, according to a new report by Mercer. With Americans increasingly struggling to pay their health care bills, more employers are shying away from only offering their workers high-deductible health plans

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2022: The Wild Year of Natural Catastrophes

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The year 2022 was one of the most tumultuous climate disaster years in history, a year when we saw the massively destructive Hurricane Ian, an unprecedent number of tornadoes, growing wildfires in the West and a “bomb cyclone” in late December. And the increasing number of natural disasters is not just a U.S. phenomenon. It’s

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Study: New Tech Helps Stop Trucks from Rear-Ending Vehicles

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A study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reports that driver assistance technologies, such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warning systems, have been shown to reduce accident rates among large trucks. Increased use of these systems in these vehicles should prevent countless deaths and injuries and save millions of dollars. The

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