"Understanding Your Employee Benefits: Employee's Guide to Benefits" is your essential guide to navigating the complex world of employee benefits. Designed to supplement your employee handbook, this book provides the expertise you need to understand, choose, and manage your benefits effectively. Remember, employee benefits can sometimes be as important as the salary itself. What's Inside: Health Plan Types and Selection: Insights to help you choose plans that align with your lifestyle and budget. Life Events, Including Divorce: Whether celebrating a newborn's arrival or navigating the intricacies of divorce, find the guidance you need to manage your benefits during life's pivotal moments. Terminating Coverages & Options: Understand when you can and how to terminate coverage, while exploring alternative options to safeguard your interests and ensure a smooth transition. Cost-Saving Strategies: Tactics to reduce out-of-pocket expenses before, during, and after a claim. Preparing for Surgery: Learn how to leverage your benefits to prepare both physically and financially for surgery. Ancillary Coverages: See if additional coverages such as disability insurance or enrolling in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) are the right choices for you. Claims Management: How to avoid non-network claims and address issues effectively at the doctor's office or hospital. Financial Planning for Healthcare: Informative chapters to help you understand your doctor's bills and brace for out-of-pocket costs with a strategic approach. Taking the time to understand your employee benefits can lead to significant savings and invaluable peace of mind.

This book serves as an employee's go-to guide for understanding and managing their benefits on a day-to-day basis. It serves as a handy tool to help employees select the right benefit plan and navigate life changes.

THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS ANSWER BOOK This go-to resource contains the most reliable information needed to answer questions about employee benefits that arise in day-to-day business. Complex and ambiguous topics are illustrated with concrete examples that can help make informed, sound decisions, and ultimately, the ability to ask better questions. Written by Rebecca Mazin an expert in human resource policies and procedures the book addresses the most commonly asked benefits questions including: How many vacation days do employees get? What's the difference between a POS and an HSA? Is offering check-ups and eye exams enough? What's involved in flexible spending accounts? What do I need to know about 401(k) and Non-Qualified Plans? Do employees expect life insurance and disability? From EAP to concierge services, what else do employees want? How does COBRA work and what else do I need to do? What can employers do to rein in benefits costs? The book also highlights specific practice examples that are "worth repeating," or "better forgotten," and includes a wide-variety of checklists and charts. The Employee Benefits Answer Book is organized by topic and arranged in a question and answer format making it easy to zero in on a particular subject. Using this important book, employers can create coherent policies based on a clear understanding of all benefits.

"The Guide to Understanding Employee Benefits," published by the A.M. Best Company, takes a fresh look at health, retirement and other workplace benefit plans for buyers and sellers. Subjects include: flexible benefit plans including cafeteria plans, premium-only plans and flexible spending plans. Consumer-oriented plans include health reimbursement arrangements(HRA) and health savings accounts (HSA). Managed care coverage includes HMOs, PPOs and point of service plans, along with indemnity plans.Disability and long-term care coverage includes short-term, long-term and long-term-care insurance. Retirement includes 401(k), 403(b), 547(b), Roth401(k)/403(b) , Keogh, simplified employee pension, savings incentive match plan for employees, defined benefit and hybrid retirement plans, and group life insurance. Voluntary benefits and employer considerations include dental, vision, legal services, stop-loss, COBRA, captives, risk-retention groups, risk pools and self-insured plans.

"The Handbook of Employee Benefits, Sixth Edition, features the knowledge and insights of more than 50 top benefits experts. It is filled with new and updated cases and real-world examples of benefit plan successes and failures." "The Handbook of Employee Benefits gives every organization and its HR practitioners and consultants the knowledge and tools they need to create plans that benefit the greatest number of employees, while allowing employers to maintain fiscal integrity and competitive advantage."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book is designed to provide readers with a broad overview and understanding of a vast and complex area of the law. The book begins with a detailed table of contents and has many charts and diagrams to provide readers with a general understanding of the law. The book provides many examples to help readers understand how the law applies to concrete factual situations. The book also includes an extensive set of footnotes with citations that refer readers to additional sources that they can consult for further study of the law. The book provides a broad overview our nation's employment-based health care system and the Affordable Care Act and its effect on employer-provided health care plans"--

The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as well as others who have no connection to the work place, the system has other weaknesses. It also has many advantages. Because most proposals for health care reform assume some continued role for employers, this book makes an important contribution by describing the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health benefits. It provides the data and analysis needed to understand the historical, social, and economic dynamics that have shaped present-day arrangements and outlines what might be done to overcome some of the access, value, and equity problems associated with current employer, insurer, and government policies and practices. Health insurance terminology is often perplexing, and this volume defines essential concepts clearly and carefully. Using an array of primary sources, it provides a store of information on who is covered for what services at what costs, on how programs vary by employer size and industry, and on what governments doâ€"and do not doâ€"to oversee employment-based health programs. A case study adapted from real organizations' experiences illustrates some of the practical challenges in designing, managing, and revising benefit programs. The sometimes unintended and unwanted consequences of employer practices for workers and health care providers are explored. Understanding the concepts of risk, biased risk selection, and risk segmentation is fundamental to sound health care reform. This volume thoroughly examines these key concepts and how they complicate efforts to achieve efficiency and equity in health coverage and health care. With health care reform at the forefront of public attention, this volume will be important to policymakers and regulators, employee benefit managers and other executives, trade associations, and decisionmakers in the health insurance industry, as well as analysts, researchers, and students of health policy.

This book offers guidance for understanding benefits options and plan structures, and making better decisions for your organization. Writing for both HR and finance professionals, internationally respected compensation and benefits professor and consultant Bashker Biswas drills comprehensively into today's most important benefits-related topics and challenges. Employee Benefits Design and Planning covers all this, and much more: Finance and accounting implications of Healthcare benefits Other risk benefits Severance benefits Disability and group life insurance programs Flexible benefits Non-qualified deferred arrangements 409A plans, ESOPs, Money Purchase Pension Plans, Cash Balance Plans, 401(k), 403(b) plans and 457 Plans Employee benefit plan financial reporting, legal compliance, and auditing Employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions Self-funding vs. insurance funding decisions Global employee benefits including umbrella pension plans and multi-national pooling Equity participation in employee benefit plans Biswas introduces and explains key employee benefit metrics and ratios, and demonstrates best practices for forecasting costs and budgeting appropriately. For all compensation professionals, benefits professionals, human resource professionals, accounting professionals, labor attorneys, financial analysts, and finance professionals. Readers will have roles in benefits-related consulting, finance, accounting, and human resource management, both domestic and international.

Joseph Martocchio's Employee Benefits: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals was written to promote a fuller understanding of employee benefits programs among students enrolled in college-level compensation and benefits course. It’s relevant to students who plan to be general managers, who deal with a variety of human resource issues in their day-to-day jobs, as well as to those who expect to be human resource practitioners. The real-world focus of Martocchio’s text is evident on every page, as he seeks to balance current academic thought with brief examples of contemporary benefits practices in business. Martocchio's Employee Benefits is forward-thinking and seeks to bring the topic into the mainstream of compensation understanding. The Third Edition continues to be concisely written, highlighting key issues in order to provide the reader with a solid foundation for discussing benefits issues with employee benefits professionals. As practices and laws affecting benefits change frequently, Martocchio stays on the cusp of recent developments, capturing all recent changes with his Third Edition.