Cost-Effective and Compliant Absence Management Programs
Alera Group offers clients of all sizes and industries access to leading insights, tools and expertise to help you manage your entire workforce, including:
- Focus on four key areas of impact: Total Health & Productivity Management, Absence Management, Return-to-Work and ADA Accommodations and Integrated Disability Management
- Manage multiple touch points across disability, leave and Workers’ Compensation
- Understand and address regulations and requirements to ensure compliance
- Streamline administration and improve record keeping and reporting
- Enhance employee engagement to attract and retain a competitive workforce
- Improve return-to-work rates and decrease employee absences
- Provide access to meaningful data, benchmarking and outcome reporting
- Increase productivity and improve overall workforce health.
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Employee Benefits
Setting Your Strategy for the New Year: Alera Group's 2025 Employee Benefits Market Outlook
Our experts will highlight key results from Alera Group’s "2025 Employee Benefits Market Outlook" and explain how these trends can impact your benefits program this year.
January 16, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Don’t Forget About Your Gag Clause Attestations
When the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) was enacted on December 27, 2020, it included a provision that prohibits group health plans and health insurance carriers from entering into certain agreements that, either directly or indirectly, restrict the release of certain information related to provider networks and de-identified encounter data, among other things. Such restrictions are commonly referred to as “gag clauses.” The CAA also requires plans and carriers to attest annually that their agreements do not include such impermissible gag clauses.
November 20, 2024
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Employee Benefits
Avoiding an Employee Lawsuit Over a Tobacco Surcharge Claim
Tobacco surcharges on health insurance premiums for employees who use tobacco products are attractive options for employers looking to keep their workforce healthy while lowering their organization’s healthcare costs. But surcharges can go too far, and many employers may be unaware of the limitations. Alera Group's new whitepaper on tobacco surcharges is designed to assist employers in complying with federal regulations.
November 19, 2024
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"Leave Report": An Innovative Resource for Informing Your Employee Benefits Plan Design
Based on a survey of more than 1,040 organizations across the U.S., Alera Group’s 2024 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Leave Report provides insights into how businesses of different sizes, industries and regions are addressing employee leave, including holidays, vacation time, sick leave and other paid leave for common life events.
August 8, 2024
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Legal Alert: IRS Adjusts Health Flexible Spending Account and Other Benefit Limits for 2024
On November 9, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2023-34, which increases the health flexible spending account (FSA) salary reduction contribution limit to $3,200
November 10, 2023
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