Deeley Insurance Group offers complimentary access to the latest Health Care Risk Management Newsletter. This monthly report covers topics affecting property & casualty in the health care industry, and can prove useful in the process of developing and refining risk management strategies. Each month, this newsletter discusses a number of issues. Highlights include: Diagnostic Errors…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/CMS) recently announced that it will delay the offer of a choice of plans with health insurance marketplaces specifically for small businesses. The transition policy, outlined in the latest HHS guidance, would delay implementation of the employee choice model as a requirement for all SHOPs until 2015. HHS…
Many healthcare businesses have some degree of workplace safety program in place. More often than not, however, these programs can be greatly improved, reducing costs for employers and increasing employee satisfaction. While numerous factors contribute to the safe operation of a business in the healthcare field, there are some simple, important, and often overlooked measures…
The Department of Labor has released a number of FAQs to clarify Affordable Care Act mandates and to assist with their implementation. The March 8th update is the 13th in this series. Please find below a list of FAQs topics and links to their content. For questions regarding this complex legislation and the related FAQs,…
A business that was seasonal in nature was hoping their seasonality would make them a small employer and not subject to PPACA large employers regulations. Our analysis of their data revealed: They are a large employer They failed to offer minimum essential coverage Facing projected $75,000 annual IRS 4980H(a) penalty With active management, this employer…
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires employers to provide all new hires and current employees with a written notice about ACA’s health insurance exchanges, effective March 1, 2013. On January 24, 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that employers will not be held to the March 1, 2013, deadline. They will not have to…
The frequency and severity of professional liability claims are on the rise, according to a Zurich study of the health care industry. Researchers identified a strong upward trend in the severity of professional liability claims. Between 2002 and 2008, severity rates climbed an average of 6.3 percent per year. These results are troubling for the…
According to Employment Screening Resources (ESR), health care providers paid $100 million in damages in a single year resulting from injury claims involving staff members with criminal records hired by hospitals or health care facilities. This is a sizeable sum, yet the price is infinite when compared to the cost of negative publicity or the…
In 2010, health care reform became a reality with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. To help you understand the impact on your benefits plans, the experts at Deeley Insurance Group offer a Healthcare Reform and COBRA FAQ two-page newsletter which…
Rising health care benefit costs, poor health habits and unnecessary medical care costs consume large portions of employer resources and your employees’ paychecks. In fact, employees with risk factors such as smoking, being overweight and having diabetes cost more to insure and pay more for health care than people with no risk factors. An investment…
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