Category Archive for : ‘health plan benefits’

2019 will be the year that many employers learn more about the possible devastating effects of the MassHealth Premium Assistance Program!  Will you be one of them?

Let’s hope not because this program could increase a company’s total benefits line item, which in most cases is already out of control.  “Premium Assistance Program” sounds like a good thing, right? Wrong. Do not let title of the program mislead you.  Not many people realize what the impact this program could have on companies.

I was recently talking to a State official about the

Have you filed your Health Insurance Responsibility Disclosure form yet?  Time is running out, it must be completed by November 30, 2018.   Some of you will remember the old HIRD form from 2006.  That was a nightmare to fill out it and it required an employee form and an employer form for every employee.   The good news is this 2018 version is nothing like that and, for the most part, is easy to fill out once you gather the necessary information.

The Department of Revenue has put out a question &