Consumer Engagement Is The New Healthcare Reality

Every so often it seems another round of surveys is released demonstrating the strong, continual growth of the consumer-directed health care (CDHC) market and the accompanying behavioral shift in how Americans approach buying health care. This month has

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New Benefits Coordinator’s Failure to Provide COBRA Election Notice Leads to Stiff Penalties for Employer

From the November 08, 2012 EBIA Weekly
[Evans v. Books-A-Million, 2012 WL 5379351 (N.D. Ala. 2012)]

The terminated employee in this case sued her former employer for, among other things, not providing her a COBRA election notice for its group dental plan.

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So you've got an HSA, now what do you do with it?

By Beth Pinsker Gladstone
NEW YORK | Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:30am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - If your company tells you it's replacing your health insurance with a high deductible plan paired with a health savings account - or adding that option to your

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