Health Care Tops Americans’ Worries for Third YearHealth care is the issue Americans worry about the most, topping the economy as the public’s primary concern for the third year in a row.More than half of adults – 55 percent – in a new National Gallup Survey say they...

Can Healthcare Be Fixed?Even though the U.S. economy appears to be doing well, Americans are concerned about what Congress will be doing in the next six months about the ACA.The Current StateThe ACA has single handedly tripled the overall cost of health care since it...

COBRA requires negotiating a thicket of deadlines. They’re easy to forget and the penalties for missing them can be costly. Wanda Bishop For the beneficiary, usually a departing employee, the risk is losing the health insurance coverage that’s provided under COBRA....

Starting April 1, Savers Admin will begin offering FMLA administration to employers. Debbie Berg FMLA is the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993. It requires employers above a certain size to provide job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons,...

Will your payroll total more than $500,000 or include an individual payment of more than $100,000, such as sometimes happens with year-end bonuses? If so, you should be aware that Savers Admin’s ACH (Automated Clearing House) provider now requires pre-funding. There...

Ohio Requests Individual ACA MandateOhio is the first state to seek a waiver for the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.Ohio officials asked the Administration on Friday to formally waive the ACA individual mandate that requires residents to have health...

One State Steps Up to Move Health Care ForwardIowa’s governor on Monday signed into law legislation that allows insurers to sell cheaper plans that don’t comply with certain ACA regulations.Gov. Kim Reynolds said the state’s market is collapsing because of the high...

ACA Signups DipThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator announced Tuesday that 11.8 million people signed up for 2018 plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The total is roughly 400,000 fewer than last year, a much smaller number than...

Will Small Biz ACA Problems Be Saved by Association Health Plans?Out of 75 Major Concerns, Small Business Owners RankHealth Insurance Costs as the Number One Problem They FaceBetween 2008 and 2015, the proportion of employers with fewer than 10 employees providing...

Sarah Yelvington, Savers Admin’s new FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) benefits specialist, first learned the ins and outs of FMLA as a front-line supervisor. So she knows the perspective of the clients she’ll be serving. Sarah Yelvington The 25-year-old Florida native...

Personnel management in the public sector is a little different, explained Carmen Caruth, human resources director for the City of Winston-Salem. The positive part, she explained, is that “you really are a public servant. Every day, we meet the needs of the people...

Medicaid Program Tilting Out of Control From ACA InfluenceAt least 21,000 Americans have died waiting to enroll in Medicaid, thanks in part to the expansion of the ACA government healthcare program, based on research reported by the Foundation for Government...