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Does Your Severance Trigger ERISA? Why You Should Care and What You Should Do
A recent case from a trial court in Pennsylvania serves as an important reminder about when ERISA is triggered and why employers should care.
ERISA Disability Insurance: Be Careful What You Say to Insurers
An ERISA disability insurance attorney says you should take care when communicating with your insurer or risk hurting your case.
Mistakes to Avoid When Shopping for Long-Term-Care Insurance
Six mistakes consumers commonly make when purchasing long-term-care insurance, and advice on how to avoid these pitfalls.
7 Surprising Things About the Affordable Care Act
This article covers seven surprising things you need to know about this brave new world of required health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
How the Affordable Care Act Changed the Face of Health Insurance
The Affordable Care Act has produced a significant impact on the expenses of health insurance companies.
How Big Data Could Transform The Health Care Industry
Emerging technologies are paving the way to the personalized medicine of the future.
How much will health care cost in retirement?
Health care is the one spending category that consistently fails to decline in retirement.
Why Are Millions of Insured Americans Still Struggling To Pay For Health Care?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law with several lofty goals — including making health insurance available to all Americans…
Why are doctors burned out? Our health care system is a complicated web
In a survey of physicians, overhauling electronic health record systems led the list of recommendations for decreasing dissatisfaction and burnout.
Why Evidence for Disability Appeals is Crucial
If a claim for ERISA disability benefits is denied or terminated, the claimant’s next recourse is to submit an administrative appeal to the insurance company. An ERISA long-term disability claim ...
Should ERISA Claims Be Handled by Lawyers?
ERISA claims are complex. Learn why they’re best handled by qualified lawyers.
When quality measures interfere with good care
As a primary care physician, I find it difficult to reconcile the quality metric standards and my ability to provide patient-centered care through shared decision-making with the individual patient.
ERISA: Clarity on When ERISA Applies to Working Owners of Small Companies
You probably already know that in small, wholly owned “mom and pop” businesses, benefits covering only the owners of the business may be exempt from...
How Insurance Companies Use ERISA
Read our latest blog to learn how insurance companies use ERISA in disability insurance claims.
When to Call Your ERISA Benefits Attorney
If you are responsible for the administration of your company’s retirement plan, you probably reach out to the plan’s record-keeper and investment advisor on a frequent basis. With the extensive bundled services offered by many record-keepers, you may wonder why you even need the name of an ERISA benefits attorney in your contacts list. An …
ERISA — 8th Circuit: When Malingering Justifies Disability Claim Denial
When does evidence of malingering justify denial of a long term disability claim? It depends. A physician’s subjective opinion regarding malingering...
MACRA preparations daunting for large physician practices
While physicians are motivated to improve care quality, new frustrations with the complicated law coupled with change fatigue will bog doctors down.
Should you care which EMR your doctor uses?
Choosing the right combination of physician and technology could be the difference between a good and bad experience in health care.
What is The Trigger for Wrongful Arrest?
Insurers Only Obligated to Defend or Indemnify for Losses that Occur During Policy Term A group of consolidated cases represent a dispute among insurance companies about who ends up paying some or …
Information management helps medical practices improve care
Most healthcare practices are constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of care provided to patients.
