Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Wellness Analytics have evolved dramatically in the past few years with the growth of Big Data in health care and the capability of new wellness tools to create and execute on strategy. While analytics have traditionally been very expensive and used mainly for Benefit Plan Design, they are now more cost-effective and being applied to Wellness Plan Design, the next frontier of human resources productivity gains and cost savings. Modern analytics can help you generate return-on-investment through a better understanding of the health status of your entire population, alignment with wellness tools, and effective implementation and evaluation of wellness programs.

This webinar will explain the value of wellness analytics, how the field is evolving, and how they can be applied to help you achieve your population health improvement goals.

On January 1, 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impose a $2,000 per employee penalty on employers with 50 or more workers who do not offer health insurance to their full-time staff. This webinar shows HR professionals what to do right now to comply with this mandate.

Participants that join this webinar can expect to have a more complete understanding of how the Internal Revenue Service defines full time employees. We’ll also discuss leveraging the safe harbor method for determining the full time status of an existing employee. Using that same method, we’ll outline how to define the status of a new employee. Objectives also include determining the status of variable hour and seasonal workers, to ensure compliance as well as a thorough understanding of standard measurement and stability periods, as a means to classifying employees.

Dependent Eligibility Verification Audits are an increasingly integral part of health care cost containment, ERISA compliance, and PPACA "Pay or Play" analysis. On average, 4-8% of Dependents enrolled in company benefits are NOT eligible. This costs employers 10's of thousands, 100's of thousands - even millions of dollars annually. Time and Money are the most common objections to conducting an audit, along with fear of adverse employee reaction. This webinar explores Best Practices, mistakes to avoid, and the substantial ROI achieved from a comprehensive dependent audit. Participants will learn what fraud in a benefits plan looks like, how prevalent fraud really is, and what type of savings they can generate for their company with an audit.

Launch your learning journey with a high energy start! This session will introduce the Institute for Human Resources (IHR) Benefits: Cost Containment, Audits and Legal Risks and the Institute for Human Resources (IHR) certification program. Find out about the workshops that will be available, and learn how the IHR certification process works. Throughout this conference you will gain practical ideas and concepts that you will be able to put into practice in your organization. You will be introduced to the Advisory Board, learn about the opportunity to become certified within the IHR and see who is speaking and their topics. You will be given guidance on how to chat online with colleagues and access the virtual exhibit hall. You will have the opportunity to ask questions as it relates to the overall program, prior to its commencement. You can access all of the archived sessions where we launched this Institute in May, 2011.

With labor costs already rising, will additional healthcare costs cut even more into your margins? And with new, complex, and hard-to-understand regulations before you, how can you ensure you have visibility for compliance purposes? The right labor strategy could prove invaluable in managing these new challenges while continuing to meet increasingly demanding customers. The webinar Labor Strategies for Surviving the Affordable Care Act offers insight and actionable approaches that you can use now. As benefits continue to rise, what does that mean for your staffing strategies? Overtime? Part time and seasonal workers? Get ahead of this issue with a short web seminar on the immediate impact.

Are healthcare costs going up? Do I have to offer health coverage? What is a Health Benefit Exchange?

Check out this free event to get all your pressing healthcare questions answered.

The new healthcare law is coming soon! Join us for an informative discussion on how the healthcare law impacts your small business and what steps you can take now to prepare. Topics include: small employer tax credits, employer responsibilities, reducing healthcare costs and Covered California, the new marketplace selling insurance to small businesses in 2014. HR.com and Small Business Majority are holding a free online workshop to help California small business owners and self-employed entrepreneurs learn what the new healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, means for small businesses. Topics include:

• Small business tax credits
• State Health Insurance Exchange
• Employer Responsibilities
• Cost Containment
• Small Employer Wellness Programs
• Tools and resources available for small businesses interested in learning more about the law

A question and answer period will follow.

Learn how the choices you make could affect your organization.
Now that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, many employers are asking, "What do I have to do to avoid penalties and minimize costs?"

Register for this complimentary webinar featuring expert advice from Monique Warren, partner at Jackson Lewis LLP, to learn how you can avoid being blind-sided by unanticipated costs in 2014.

In this webinar you will learn how the penalties can be triggered in 2014, their potential financial impact, and how alternatives to avoid these penalties may affect your organization. Employers that have not already done so must put a strategy in place and develop tools and processes to comply before the 2014 deadline.

Do you feel safe flying? Many people think airlines are not as safe as hospitals. But healthcare providers in the U.S. have caused 1,000,000 deaths since 9/11 with medical errors. International efforts are being made to eliminate errors that reach the patient and decrease the level of harm to the patient when errors do reach them. Discover how to find out which hospitals in your community are mitigating the errors that reach the patient. Determine which metrics are appropriate for measuring your healthcare providers’ commitment to safety. Consider cultural changes which would empower your employees to alter how they choose providers and decrease your Worker’s Compensation claims.

Nearly twenty years after passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, what steps are employers taking to manage employee absence and help stay compliant with federal and state leave laws? To answer that question, the ADP Research Institute surveyed 503 HR and Benefits decision makers to better understand their business priorities and practices regarding FMLA administration and Total Absence Management (TAM).

Survey results suggest that employer views on Total Absence Management are mixed. Lost productivity due to unplanned absence is a primary business concern for employers; however, few employers reported that they had undertaken studies to measure the impact of absenteeism on productivity or develop strategies to mitigate the side effects of unplanned absence.

Join us for this event which will address data gathered by the ADP Research Institute focused on all aspects of TAM including:

• The effect of employee absenteeism;
• Business impacts associated with absenteeism;
• Processes and tools used by employers to administer Leave Administration;
and
• Tactics to measure and mitigate the impacts of employee absence

As a Human Resource professional who has typically strategized and driven the initiatives associated with the function, there is a new player in town, Finance. With the introduction of healthcare reform and the respective costs associated with it, Finance is anxious to get involved in the health insurance decision making process. As such, it is in Human Resources’ best interest to be ready. This presentation will provide the opportunity for Human Resource professionals to learn how to work effectively with the Finance department over the next 6 years; determine the key healthcare reform provisions that Finance will be most interested in; understand the major financial modeling considerations associated with healthcare reform; communicate the soft cost impact of healthcare reform to Finance so they may be taken into consideration when developing the overall health insurance strategy.