Physical, mental and financial wellness are inextricably linked. Improving them can not only improve the lives of employees but also have profound organizational impacts on productivity, health care costs and talent attraction and retention.
The new pre-examination pilot program gives employers an additional chance to identify operational errors and self-correct them after the plan has been targeted for audit.
In states that have created auto-IRA programs, employers with plans continue to offer them, and businesses without plans are adopting new ones at rates similar to before the state options were available.
In a year already marked by overwhelming legislative and regulatory change, group health plans now must address abortion coverage in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org.
