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• HIPAA e-Rule Surprises Small Businesses

  BNET - 2006-04-20

  Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS, the HIPAA Security Rule mandates that companies with small health plans - defined as those with less than $5 million in group medical claims - will have to comply with 17 standards, and at least half of the 41...

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• Tipping Point for Cash-Balance Plans?

  BNET - 2006-04-18

  The cash-balance plan is a "Hybrid" that's re-emerging as a middle ground between defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans. Legally it's a DB plan (the employer, not the employee, takes on the financial risk of achieving a preset benefit), but it's structured like a DC plan (somewhat like a 401k, it features...

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• View From Asia: India Won't Benefit Fully From the Amazing Productivity of Its Companies Unless It Builds a Better Infrastructure for Business

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  India's companies surpass Chinese enterprises in productivity, although most of that productivity is being exported, via the service sector, to distant markets. According to a UBS report, between 1998 and 2003 the average return on capital employed for an Indian firm was 17 percent. China's was 11 percent. India outpaces...

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• Sprucing Up the 401(k): With Other Retirement Vehicles in Dire Shape, Plan Sponsors Are Rethinking Their Defined-Contribution Offerings

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Social Security is projected to become insolvent in 2041, according to its trustees. Traditional pension plans are terminated, frozen, or underfunded with increasing regularity. That leaves the 401k plan to carry the bulk of the retirement load. The trouble is, though, plenty of research suggests that 401k plans, as they...

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• States to Employers: Pay Up

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Companies that don't provide health-care insurance could soon get a wake-up call. That's because an increasing number of states - 23 at recent count, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures - are considering so-called pay-or-play bills that would force employers either to provide some coverage or pay a...

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• The Case Against Health Savings Accounts

  BNET - 2006-03-17

  Many CFOs see health savings accounts as a way to stanch the bleeding. But growing corporate interest in HSAs has been met by a growing backlash by critics and researchers. A creation of the 2003 Medicare act, HSAs do offer employers the hope of curbing their insurance expense. Under the...

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• Another Step for Small-Biz Health Bill

  BNET - 2006-03-16

  The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted 11-9 in favor of a bill that would allow business and trade associations to band their members together to offer group health coverage on a national or regional basis. According to a press release by the nonprofit Foundation for Taxpayer and...

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• Benefits in 2020: The Future of Health and Retirement Plans Presents Big Challenges for Employers and Employees

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Employee benefits have been a lose-lose situation for years. Even as companies have asked workers to absorb a higher percentage of health-care costs; cut benefits for retirees; and shifted away from richer Defined-Benefit DB plans in favor of more-predictable 401ks, CFOs have still had to face their corporate boards and...

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• Finders Keepers: Turnover Is Expensive, Lowering It Doesn't Have to Be

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Companies that experience high rates of employee turnover will likely find that it's not salary issues that cause workers to walk out the door. Instead, employees are looking for benefits, training, and flexibility. Not only do employers suffer lower productivity when there is a high turnover rate, but it's also...

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• Forgotten, But Not Gone: Freezing a Pension Plan Doesn't Make It Go Away

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Pressure to freeze Defined-Benefit DB plans has been mounting. Freezing a pension plan is not as simple as closing the door to new benefits. The sponsor must continue to manage the assets to provide for retirees and for currently active employees who have accrued pension benefits. It also doesn't provide...

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