Broker/Consultant Services for Employee Health Benefits

Compliance News:

Health

• “Governmental Health Plans and Extended Deadlines”
• “Impact of CARES Act on Health Plans”
• “DOL Guidance on Paid Leave Related to COVID-19”
• “New Law Addresses Coronavirus Testing and Sick Leave”
• “Coronavirus Test Coverage and Group Health Plans”
• “Medicare Telehealth Expansion in COVID-19 Spending Law”
• “Answers to FAQs on COVID-19 Testing Requirements”

Retirement

• “Pension Plan Sponsors: Use the Pandemic to Prepare”
• “Additional Deadline Relief for Retirement Plans”
• “New Flexibility for Cafeteria Plan Elections”
• “IRS FAQs on Plan Distributions and Loans Related to COVID-19”
• “Impact of CARES Act on Retirement Plans”

Other Insights:

• ”Telebehavioral Health Care Makes Sense Now More Than Ever”
• “Dealing With Employee Burnout? Here’s How to Help”
• “How COVID-19 May Affect People in Their 20s”
• “Review Commercial & Voluntary Insurance in Light of COVID-19”
• “Impact of Furloughs and Layoffs on Corporate DB and DC Plans”
• “COVID-19 Response Framework”
• “COVID-19 Drives Digital Health Trends”
• Trends: “Health Plan News and Strategies for Plan Sponsors: Q2 2020”
• “Will Your Multiemployer Pension Plan Ride Out the Storm?”
• “What Might Be the Health Plan Cost Impact of COVID-19?”
• “Helping Individuals Cope in Response to COVID-19”
• “How to Lead Your Organization Through the COVID-19 Crisis” for hospitals and higher education
• “COVID-19 and the Investment Environment”
• “What You Need to Know about the New Coronavirus”
• "Preparing Your Workforce for the Coronavirus: Guidance”
• “How Multiemployer Funds Should Talk about the Coronavirus” to their fund participants
• A Segal Benz blog post “What to Tell Employees about the Coronavirus” provides tips for communicating guidance to employees about their benefits in light of COVID-19
• A Segal Marco Advisors blog post discussing coronavirus disruptions in the capital markets: “The Near Term Impact from COVID-19 on the Bond Markets”

Webinars

A recent webinar includes:

• “Benefit Fund Offices: Lessons From te COVID-19 Crisis” on June 18 is a panel discussion webinar with benefit fund office leaders to learn strategies, tips and best practices employed over the past two months.

We recently conducted several webinars to discuss clients’ most urgent COVID-19 questions: The titles below include the hyperlinks to the archived materials:

• “Addressing Health Benefit Compliance Issues Triggered by COVID-19” discusses the new coronavirus-related legislation and regulatory guidance, including potential subsidies for continuation of health coverage.
• Our national compliance team led a CARES Act webinar “The COVID-19 Stimulus Package – What Might Be the Impact?” that reviewed the employee benefit and leave provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. The webinar not only explains these important provisions but also offers tips and insights aimed at helping employers and plan sponsors understand the practical and administrative impact of the new law.
• “What to Say Right Now Aout Coronavirus” – In this hour-long webinar, we discuss how to communicate with your people about the coronavirus pandemic, how often to communicate and what you should be telling them right now. We answer questions and share best practices and overall messaging to help you guide your people through this crisis.
• “Managing Your Operations During the COVID-19 Crisis" – In the face of COVID-19, your people have many concerns about what tomorrow will bring. You have similar concerns about your day-to-day operations, as well as how this virus will affect your company and how measures the country is taking will play out over the near future. In this webinar, our team of experts addresses the coronavirus challenge and suggests ways that employers and plan sponsors can move forward.
• “Key Workforce Strategies for Coping with the COVID-19 Crisis” about scenario based workforce planning presents several strategies for addressing workforce challenges associated with the financial impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.