by Nikki Hughes | Oct 11, 2018 | Employee Benefits, ensure, Health, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Safety Tips, Uncategorized, winter
In the Wake of the Deadliest Flu Season in Recent History, CDC Urges Public to Take Action Over 700,000 people were estimated to have been admitted to the hospital during the 2017-18 flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)...
by Nikki Hughes | Jul 20, 2018 | Employee Benefits, FBinsure
On June 28, 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed Bill H.4640 into law. The bill establishes a mandatory statewide paid family and medical leave program, which will be administered by a new Department of Family and Medical Leave. The leave program will be...
by Richard Volkmann | Apr 6, 2017 | Employee Benefits, FBinsure, Health Insurance, Healthcare
Clients and friends are always asking me “Can we have a PPO?” Most local companies only offer an HMO, but there are advantages to a PPO. This does not mean that a PPO is for everyone. Here are the pros and cons of a PPO: These are the major differences between an HMO...
by Richard Volkmann | Feb 5, 2016 | Employee Benefits, Health Insurance
A flexible spending account (FSA) is a beneficial tool for saving money on health care, since the account contains pretax dollars contributed each pay period to pay for qualified medical and dental expenses. An important provision of an FSA is that most of the money...