The handbook of employee benefits : health and group benefits / edited by Jerry S. Rosenbloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenbloom, Jerry S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employee fringe benefits--Taxation--Law and legislation--United States.

Employee fringe benefits.

Employee fringe benefits--Law and legislation--United States.

Employee fringe benefits--United States.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 977 p.

Edition:

7th ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, United States of America : McGraw-Hill Education, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The essential resource for designing and implementing employee benefits—bringing you up to date on critical new industry changes For nearly three decades, HR professionals and consultants have depended on The Handbook of Employee Benefits for authoritative answers to their questions about designing and implementing competitive employee benefits packages. Covering everything from general objectives to costs, this classic reference brings you up to date on critical changes driven by legislative developments, such as the new health-care reform law enacted by the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The seventh edition of The Handbook of Employee Benefits features the knowledge and insights of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field. Filled with new and updated information and real-world examples, this edition focuses on health and group benefits: Health Benefits: health-care reform’s impact on employee benefits, new approaches to cost containment, how to access quality care, consumer-driven health-care plan designs along with dental, behavioral, prescription, and long-term care programs Life Insurance: group term, universal life, and corporate-owned life programs Work/Life Programs: traditional time off and family leave, child and elder care, and assistance for education, financial planning, and voluntary benefits Social Insurance Programs: Social Security, Medicare, and workers’ and unemployment compensation programs Group and Health Benefit Plan Financial Management: federal tax laws, funding health benefit plans—insured, self-funded, and captive arrangements Employee Benefit Administration: flexible benefit plans, fiduciary liability issues, and communications Issues of Special Interest: retiree welfare benefits, small company benefits, multiemployer plans, and international employee benefit planning An innovative, efficient employee benefit program has become one of the primary prerequisites to success in today’s lean business battleground. The Handbook of Employee Benefits provides the knowledge and tools you need to create plans that benefit the greatest number of employees, while allowing employers to maintain fiscal integrity and competitive advantage.

Contents:

The environment of employee benefit plans

The environment of employee benefit plans / Jerry S. Rosenbloom

Functional approach to employee benefit plans / G. Victor Hallman

Risk concepts and employee benefit plans / Gary K. Stone

Medical and other health benefits

Health plan evolution / Dennis F. Mahoney

Appendix A: to Chapter 4: health care cost equation

Appendix B: to Chapter 4: vision care and hearing care plans

Health care cost containment : demand side approaches / David Harvey

Managing and measuring care management intervention programs / Ian Duncan

Consumer-driven health plans

Appendix to Chapter 7: consumer-driven health plans : popularity and growth / Diane Luedtke

Understanding managed behavioral health care benefits / Edward Jones, Ann McClanathan and Dagmar King

Health care quality : are we getting our money's worth / William J. Mayer

Pharmacy benefits

Appendix A: to Chapter 10: definitions

Appendix B: to Chapter 10: pharmaceutical pricing

Appendix C: to Chapter 10: medication equivalence

Appendix D: to Chapter 10: specialty/biotechnology medications and their place in prescription drug plans / Craig S. Stern

Dental plan design / Ronald L. Huling

Long-term care insurance / Jan McFarland

Disability income benefits / John S. Roberts and Mark A. Andruss

Life insurance benefits

Group life insurance / William H. Rabel and Jerry S. Rosenbloom

Business uses of life insurance

Appendix A: to Chapter 15: permanent life insurance plans and features

Appendix B: to Chapter 15: universal life insurance programs / Susan Conant

Work/life benefits

Time-off benefits and family and medical leave programs

Appendix A: to Chapter 16: flsa exempt and nonexempt workers

Appendix B: to Chapter 16: guidelines for the term "serious health condition" under the family and medical leave act / Serafina Maniaci

Dependent care programs / Ann Costello

Selected additional benefits : educational assistance programs, group legal services plans, transportation fringe benefits and voluntary benefits / Craig J. Davidson

Financial planning as an employee benefit / Robert T. LeClair

Social insurance programs

Social security and medicare : focus on disability, survivorship, and medicare provisions / Robert J. Myers

Medicare part D: prescription drug benefits

Appendix A: to Chapter 21: beneficiary communications

Appendix B to Chapter 21: Part D cost projections

Appendix C to Chapter 21: Part D changes due to MIPPA

Appendix D to Chapter 21: prescription drug events (PDEs)

Appendix E to Chapter 21: quality measures in Part D

Appendix F to Chapter 21: drug categories covered on medicare Part B

Appendix G to Chapter 21: details of drug coverage in Part D formularies / Craig S. Stern

Workers' compensation

Appendix to Chapter 22: calculating insurance premiums / John F. Burton, Jr

Unemployment compensation : US Department of Labor

Employee benefit plan administration

Strategic benefit plan management / Dennis F. Mahoney

Cafeteria plan design and administration / Amy L. Cavanaugh

Fiduciary liability issues under ERISA / Alan P. Cleveland

Communicating employee benefits programs

Appendix to Chapter 27: key reporting and disclosure requirements of the patient protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 / Serafina Maniaci

Group and health benefit plan financial management

Federal tax law requirements for group welfare benefit plans / Everett T. Allen, Jr.

Funding health benefit plans : insured arrangements / Richard Tewksbury

Funding health benefit plans : self-funded and captive arrangementsrichard l. / Lewksbury and Timothy Luedtke

Employee benefit plan issues

Welfare benefits for retirees / Richard Ostuw and Stuart H. Alden

Employee benefit plans for small companies / Ronald L. Woodmansee

Multiemployer plans / David Blumenstein

The globalization of employee benefits / Mark S. Allen and Tony R. Broomhead.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613101631

9781283101639

1283101637

9780071763097

0071763090

OCLC:

861751775