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