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.
The Impact of Absence Management
Potential Implications for Stakeholders.
Employee Communication & Absence Management
EXPERT EDUCATION
Events and Webinars
Employee Benefits
2025 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Benchmarking Report: How Does Your Benefits Program Stack Up?
In this session, our experts will dive into the results of our annual, market-leading benchmarking survey.
June 26, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Dynamic Data: Strategies for Success
Join us for this session, as our experts will share how to utilize your organization’s data to create advanced and innovative strategies for success.
July 17, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Building Resilient Workplaces: Strategies for Integrating Absence Management and Enhancing Employee Wellbeing
Join us for an insightful webinar on the crucial intersection of absence management and employee wellbeing.
October 16, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Insights
Employee Benefits
Agencies Push Pause Button on Enforcement of MHPAEA 2024 Final Rule
On May 15, 2025, the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Treasury Department (collectively, the “Agencies”) released a statement regarding the Agencies’ recent request for abeyance of a lawsuit filed by the ERISA Industry Committee (“ERIC”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that challenged certain aspects of Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”) relating to nonquantitative treatment limitation comparative analyses (“NQTL analyses”).
May 16, 2025
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Employee Benefits
IRS Releases 2026 HSA Contribution Limits and HDHP Deductible and Out-of-Pocket Limits
In Rev. Proc. 2025-19, the IRS released the inflation adjusted amounts for 2026 relevant to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and high-deductible health plans (HDHPs). The table below summarizes those adjustments and other applicable limits.
May 5, 2025
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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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