Benefits
Employee has twelve or more months of cumulative service, has worked at least 1,250 regular hours in the twelve months prior, works at a location where the company employs 50+ employees within 75 miles, and has (or qualified family member has) a serious health condition.
What is the eligibility criteria for Family Medical Leave?
These employees do not have an exemption from eligibility to earn overtime compensation.
Non-exempt employees.
A specified amount of money that the insured must pay before an insurance company will pay a claim.
What is a deductible?
$7.25 per hour
What is the federal minimum wage that went into effect in July 2009?
A medical model in which doctors operate outside of insurance, usually via a monthly subscription fee.
What is Direct Primary Care?
Resource available for voluntary and confidential employee assistance counseling.
What is an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
A rule from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that states that every person must purchase health insurance, under threat of a (now zero dollar) tax penalty.
What is the individual mandate?
Leave that protects the job of an employee who has filed a worker's compensation claim, which may run concurrently to worker's compensation.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
A pharmacy resource available through the Kansas Business Group on Health that has a guaranteed return on investment, with savings typically between 8-10%.
What is the RightRx program?
According to a 2019 JAMA study, banning the sale of these types of beverages at the worksite resulted in a decreased waist circumference and improved insulin resistance for employees of the organization.
A Medicare Part D phenomenon in which patients were at risk for drug costs between their initial coverage and before reaching the catastrophic-coverage threshold, set to narrow to 5% in 2020 by ACA mandate.
What is the "doughnut hole" or the the "Medicare Part D coverage gaps"?
What is a lunch break?
A one-year behavioral change program that has been shown to dramatically cut healthcare costs by reducing the risk of diabetes by 58%.
What is the Diabetes Prevention Program?
These are the types of "covered entities" that are required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
The maximum amount of time an employee can be covered by COBRA insurance who was voluntarily or involuntarily terminated for the job (other than for "gross misconduct") or had reduced hours.
What is 18 months?
A plan employees can elect to participate in where they agree to contribute a portion of their salaries on a pre-tax basis to pay for qualified health benefits.
What is a Section 125 plan (also known as a "Cafeteria Plan")?
Duties test, salary level test, and salary basis test.
What 3 tests must a 'job' meet in order to be considered exempt from overtime provisions (Part541, Fair Labor Standards Act)?
The single biggest source of waste in the US medical system, as found by a 2019 JAMA analysis from the University of Pittsburgh and Humana.
What is administrative waste?