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Opt-Out Payments Under ACA

With calendar-year plan open enrollment season approaching, employers should consider how they treat payments made for opting out of health coverage.
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Question of the Week

Q.- An employee on leave wants to cancel her health coverage. Is this a COBRA event?
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BAS Encrypted Emails

BAS’ email encryption process is one of the many security features BAS has in place to protect sensitive information. Any email messages sent from a @basusa.com email ...
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BAS Implements New E-Mail Encryption Service

  • BAS
  • 05.10.2017
Beginning Tuesday, October 10, 2017, BAS will use Zixcorp as its e-mail encryption service.
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Administrators Assigned Unique User IDs and Passwords

  • BAS
  • 05.10.2017
MyEnroll.com allows as many people as needed to have access to a particular employer account as an administrator. Each individual identified as an employer administrator ...
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Question of the Week

Q.- An employee is sending his daughter to ballet classes after school. He wants to know if the cost of the classes can be reimbursed from his health FSA. Can they?
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Required Notice Distribution

As we are getting into the fall months, employers with calendar year plans begin to prepare for the annual open enrollment period. Part of these preparations should ...
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Full Time for ALE vs. Full Time for Benefits

The Affordable Care Act requires applicable large employers (ALEs) to offer health coverage to full time employees and their dependents. A “full-time employee” is ...
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School Leave Laws

As the school year starts again, employees are faced with the challenges of balancing work and family obligations. One often stressful family obligation of working ...
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Insurer Inadvertently Reveals Medical Status in Mailing

  • BAS
  • 28.09.2017
Aetna inadvertently revealed the HIV status of some of its members. In July, a letter was sent to certain Aetna participants with information about HIV medication. The ...
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