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RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Is It Time to Reboot Your Defined-Contribution Plan?
By Lori Lucas
Companies may want to consider sweeping existing 401(k) participant balances into new and better funds.
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UP TO AGE 31
New Jersey Extends Age Gap for Children on Parents’ Coverage
July 8, 2008 2:40 PM PT
Since the enactment of New Jersey’s original law, other states also have bumped up—generally to age 25 or 26—the maximum age employees’ older dependent children can retain coverage through their parents’ group plans.
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UTILIZATION REVIEW REQUIRED
California High Court Clarifies Comp Denial Duties
July 8, 2008 10:35 AM PT
The court said applying California Labor Code Section 4062 does not allow employers and insurers to opt out of performing utilization review conducted by a licensed doctor.
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Looking Through Health Care Transparency
Recent years have witnessed important efforts to provide more and better cost and quality information to health care consumers—but promoting value in health care requires more than just transparency. Consumers need user-friendly access to all the information that matters—and some compelling reasons to use it.
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Once considered a mental disorder affecting only children, psychiatrists now consider attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to be a lifelong condition. Awareness of the disorder will help employers tap into the talent associated with ADHD while avoiding the pitfalls.
The suggestions include modifying the language used in disability plans; improving data collection; and integrating claim management.
The special health care needs of children and mothers—and the associated costs—often go overlooked by employers, leading to stress for employees and lost productivity, according to health benefits experts. They have published a ‘tool kit’ aimed at helping employers better tailor their health benefits to address those costs.
Among other things, the new principles state that medical care outside of the country must be voluntary and that patients should only be referred for care at institutions that have been accredited by recognized international accrediting bodies.
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