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The Health Plan Communication community highlights the latest news and innovative trends and best practices employers are utilizing to effectively communicate information to their employee population in regard to choice profiles, design explanations, a summary plan description (SPD) and outlines, offering employees information such as cost-sharing provisions, including premiums, deductibles, co-insurance and copayment amounts.

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Aetna Members In Alaska Now Have Access To Non-Urgent Care Consultations By Phone

Do you have a sore throat and stuffy nose or maybe a sinus infection? Having trouble getting an appointment to see your primary care doctor right away? Now, Aetna (NYSE: AET) members in most fully-insured medical plans in Alaska will have the option of using a new service from Teladoc

Ten Steps for Beating Benefits Bewilderment

In its ninth annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends, insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs provider, MetLife discovered 55 percent of surveyed employees do not consider their benefits materials clear or comprehensive. And if that weren’t depressing enough, there’s a good chance the other 45 percent didn’t understand the question.

Geisinger Health Plan Selects NaviNet to Enhance Its Next-Generation Provider Communications Strateg

Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) announced today that it has chosen NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network, to enhance its next-generation provider communications strategy.

Social Media—the Fun Way to Talk Benefits

Social media can be a cheap, fun way to educate more tech-savvy employees about benefits options, giving administrators a valuable tool to promote their programs.

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AmeriHealth NJ Helps Consumers See Things More Clearly With Infographics

AmeriHealth NJ released a series of visual infographics in an effort to provide consumers with important information in an easy-to-understand way. The infographics provide clarity on some of the more commonly used health insurance terms and also address vital health information.

Transitions Optical Releases Consensus Paper Highlighting Vision Benefit Engagement Strategies

In HR Panel Discussion, Panelists Reflect on Need to Educate Aging, Active Workforce about Importance of Vision Care and Vision Wear for Overall Health and Productivity

CRC Health Group Moves Employee Benefits to the Benefitfocus Cloud

CRC Health Group employees will soon have a better way to enroll in all of their benefits. The California-based healthcare services company has selected BENEFITFOCUS® HR InTouch to manage enrollment and communication for all types of benefits – medical, voluntary and financial – all in

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On the Health Care Reform Horizon: New Info on W-2s

05/16/2012 - With the slew of other new legal disclosures coming up this summer, adding the full...

 

John Driscoll joins Castlight Health as President

05/15/2012 - Castlight Health is getting serious about pursuing its ambition to bring health care transparency to...

 

IHC FORUM WEST 2012

05/14/2012 - The IHC FORUM WEST 2012 Registration is now open. We have a new and exciting...

 

More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices About Testing

05/08/2012 - “I’m thinking of getting a full-body CT scan,” Jane said. “What do you think?” Here...

 

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Final Regulations Require New Health Plan Summaries for Most Fall Enrollments

The federal agencies responsible for implementing the health reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), issued final regulations relating to the requirement that insurers and plan sponsors distribute four-page "plain English" benefit summaries to health plan enrollees.

The ROI for Targeted Therapies: A Strategic Perspective Assessing the Barriers and Incentives for Ad

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What Employers Want From Health Insurers--Now

In 2008, PriceWaterhouseCoopers' research team surveyed senior executives at more than 100 large US-based multinational companies and more than 250 privately held small companies. The large companies each have an average of 8,000 employees and revenue of about $3 billion. The small employers each have

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