Human Resources: Dental

The Principal Financial Group Provides New Ways to Stay Healthy
Discounts and services now available to group insurance customers

WorldatWork Wins Three Awards for Publication Excellence
WorldatWork, the total rewards association, recently garnered three awards for publication excellence from the 2006 APEX Awards.

WorldatWork´s Latest Book Provides Broader Context for Stock Option Backdating Debate
In the midst of the stock option backdating debate, WorldatWork, a not-for-profit professional association for compensation, benefits and total rewards, has published a new book entitled, "Stock Options & the New Rules of Corporate Accountability."

INSURANCE LEADER MICHAEL R. SLADE TAKES WORKSITE BENEFIT COMMUNICATIONS HIGH-TECH WITH NAVITECH
Industry Innovator Positioned to Further Revolutionize Employee Benefit Education and Enrollment

ADP Retirement Services to Offer 401(k) Managed Accounts Option From Morningstar Associates, LLC
Plan Participants Can Benefit From Innovative All-Index-Fund Managed Accounts Option

Most Now Relying on Medicare Subsidies to Offset Costs
Despite widespread use of the Medicare federalsubsidy, a vast majority of employers are planning to curtail their retireemedical plans for current and future retirees in the next five years,according to a new study by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global human capitalconsulting firm.

INSURANCE LEADER MICHAEL R. SLADE TAKES
Industry Innovator Positioned to Further Revolutionize Employee Benefit Education and Enrollment

PayScale Launches Application to Provide Real-Time Salary Market Metrics
PayScale Analytics provides web service for job matching and salary verification.

PayScale Launches Application to Provide Real-Time Salary Market Metrics
PayScale Analytics provides web service for job matching and salary verification

Watson Wyatt Urges Congress to Seize Opportunity to Shore Up Nation's Pension System
New Analysis of FORTUNE 1000 Firms Shows Continued Shift to 401(k)s

InsureMe Honored Nationally as One of 25 Best Places to Work
Denver company continues employer winning streak

Concero Adds Idaho AGC to Its Growing List of Clients
The online benefit management group expands existing partnerships into five states.

Concero Technology, announced they are partnering with the Idaho Associated General Contractors (AGC) Health Benefit Trust to add a secure, online benefits sales and management program.
Idaho becomes the fifth state in which Concero will manage all AGC benefit programs.

PayScale Announces Real-Time Compensation Data Solution for HR Professionals, Hiring Managers
Payscale Professional provides compensation data for IT sector; Momentum building in other leading business sectors

CareGain Unit of Fiserv Enters Hosting Agreement with Health Net
CareGain Inc., a business unit of Fiserv Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV), announced today an arrangement with Health Net to use CareGain´s Defined-Care ® Platform to enhance Health Net´s consumer-directed health offerings. CareGain will provide the Defined-Care Platform through an ASP hosting arrangement.

Thompson Publishing Group to Debut New Products at SHRM 2006
Thompson Publishing Group will exhibit new publications at the upcoming Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) annual conference and exhibition to be held June 25-28, 2006 at booth #3820.

NCOA Praises House Action on Older Americans Act and Its Emphasis on Benefits Outreach
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) commends the House of Representatives for passing the Senior Independence Act (H.R. 5293) without dissent. The legislation would reauthorize and strengthen services offered under the Older Americans Act, the chief federal law governing the organization and delivery of a number of social services for older Americans.

Bluegrass Family Health Selects PharmaCare to Administer Prescription Benefits
Four-Year Contract Adds 50,000 Lives to one of the Nation´s Largest PBMs

A New Online Application Shows Employees How Much They Really Make
A partnership between two Nashville-based companies has resulted in the release of a new online application that shows company employees the true value of their benefits in an easy-to-understand format.

Corporate Directors Give Executive Pay ModelMixed Reviews, Watson Wyatt Survey Finds
Directors, Investors Agree Model Hurts Corporations´ Image,Disagree on Link to Performance

Leading Workforce and Expense Management Solutions Provider CyberShift to Accelerate the Action at Upcoming SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition with NASCAR-themed Booth
CyberShift, a leading provider of workforce and expense management software and services

Secova/UltraLink Secures Eight Million in New Funding from Baring Private Equity; Funding Will Help Service Recent Client Wins
Secova/UltraLink, a leading provider of human resource and benefits management services, today announced it has secured eight million in new funding from Baring Private Equity Partners (BPEP), a leading international private equity fund.

Authoria Webcast Illuminates Changes in Employee Benefits Delivery; Towers Perrin Principal, Executives from Carlson Companies and FM Global to Discuss How Enterprises Can Prepare for ''Healthcare Consumerism''
Authoria, Inc., the leader in strategic talent management solutions, today announced a complimentary Webcast that will explore how recent trends in employee benefits delivery are changing the ways in which enterprises communicate with their employees.

ADP AND FIRST DATA PARTNER TO EXPAND DISTRIBUTION OF SMALL BUSINESS PAYROLL OUTSOURCING SERVICES
Industry Leaders Join Together to Offer a Range of Small Business Solutions

Concero Technology Releases ePR.Live - an Innovative Online Electronic Payroll Reporting Solution
Provides easy-to-use online solutions for Third Party Administrators and self-administered Trusts in the Taft-Hartley market

BeneTrac Announces Features to Help HR Professionals and Brokers Get the Most from Employee Benefits Plans
Custom reporting, employee communication and auditing tools offer new and robust features to simplify and enhance benefits management for BeneTrac HR Users and Brokers

Payroll Veteran To Head HR XCEL's Payroll Services Division
HR XCEL, LLC announced today that Sandra Thomson, CPP, will head the company´s payroll division as vice president, payroll services.

Concero Technology Releases ePR.Live an Innovative Online Electronic Payroll Reporting Solution
Provides easy-to-use online solutions for Third Party Administrators and self-administered Trusts in the Taft-Hartley market

Buck Consultants Survey Finds Successful HRO Anticipates New Role of Retained HR Staff
Buck Consultants, an ACS company and one of the world´s leading human resource and benefits consulting firms, announced today the results of a national survey of U.S. organizations.

Culturally Competent EAPs Needed for Increasingly Diverse Workforce
As health care expenditures continue to increase, there´s no doubt that it is critical to focus on strategies that reduce the prevalence and cost of preventable chronic conditions. The situation is exacerbated, however, by an increasingly diverse workforce.

AWLP, WorldatWork Seek Workshop Presentationsfor 2007 Work-Life Conference
Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP) and WorldatWork are seeking workshop presentation proposals for the annual Work-Life Conference that will take place at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Feb. 21-23, 2007.

UnumProvident´s New Enrollment Platform
Helps Employees Make Informed Benefits Choices

URAC Sets Standards For Pharmacy Benefit Management Programs
New Standards Aimed At Ensuring Patient Safety, Consumer Protection

SCI Companies Enables Businesses to Offer Customized Disability Benefits to Employees
SCI, a national leading Professional Employer Organization (PEO), announced today that effective immediately, it is adding employer-paid short-term disability (STD) and long-term disability (LTD) insurance plans to its existing voluntary benefits offerings through Jefferson Pilot Financial.

Single Provider HR Outsourcing Solution Solving Executives' Pain
HR partnership enables focus on strategic HR, hiring top talent. Although more than half of small businesses outsource to multiple providers, the majority (70 percent) would actually prefer to outsource to a single provider, according to a recent research report by TriNet, "An Executive Guide to 2006 HR Trends." This latest research report by TriNet offers business owners, executives and HR professionals information on current industry trends, best practices and techniques for attracting top talent, reducing costs and effectively competing in their industry.

What´s on your Industry Radar? - RSS Driven Portal for the "Real Time" Business of HR and Employee Benefits Launches
For those in the human resources, healthcare insurance or employee benefits industries the answer to the question above is the free thought leader news portal - The Industry Radar (www.theindustryradar.com) which launched today designed to keep your "radar" attuned to all the latest industry trends and news.

Internet Tools Can Encourage Appropriate Health Care Decisions, Watson Wyatt Says
Companies that are best at controlling healthcare costs are more likely than their poorer performing counterparts tooffer multifaceted Internet tools that help employees model health careoptions, a study by Watson Wyatt and the National Business Group on Healthhas found.

Buck Consultants Announces Total Rewards InSight Communication Tool
Buck Consultants announced today the launch of Total Rewards InSight, an enhanced total rewards communication solution that provides unique information views and human resource management tools for all key stakeholders.

Buck Consultants announced today that it has been selected by the Milwaukee County Retirement System to provide actuarial and retirement consulting services.
Buck Consultants to Provide Milwaukee County With Retirement Plan Services

Workscape Closes First Quarter of 2006 with Record- Breaking Sales and Accomplishments
- Leading Provider of Outsourced Benefits and Workforce Management Solutions Generates Sales Momentum from New Client Wins and Expanded Client Relationships -

Forty-Five Percent Believe Employers Should be Required to Provide Employee Health Care Benefits
What role should employers play in ensuring that their employee's lives are covered? What role should employees play in taking their turn at the oars? That is exactly what Success Performance Solutions readers of its weekly newsletter The Total View during the month of April.

Child Abduction, Home Invasion Insurance Added to Group-Benefits Package
"With FBI reports of an American victimized by burglary every 15 seconds and countless child abduction stories circulating through the media, family protection and security are very real concerns for many Americans," said James Hamilton, senior vice president, Chubb & Son, and North American manager for Chubb Accident & Health.

Kelly McClain Joins EBMC, Will Focus on New Business Development
Addition of industry veteran to bolster sales team for benefit management company.

Patricia Zingheim, Jay Schuster Receive Top WorldatWork Award
Keystone Award Presented at Total Rewards Conference& Exhibition in Anaheim, Calif.

Buck Consultants announced today that it has been selected by FormTech Industries LLC to provide an array of employee benefit services.
Buck Consultants to Provide Employee Benefit Services for FormTech Industries

HRAmerica releases "Top HR Trends in 2006" Report
Survey-based research provides best practices, competitive information on HR outsourcing.

EMPLOYEASE CLOSES FISCAL Q3 2006 WITH 55% YEAR OVER YEAR REVENUE GROWTH
Achieves 34th Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth

Travis Software Corp., announced a 99.9% Service Level Agreement to its WebCOBRA.com customers.
Few, if any, on-demand COBRA software vendors guarantee uptime or provide any Service Level Agreements (SLA) for their customers.

Watson WyattWorldwide is warning that a new policy announced yesterday by theDepartment of Energy (DOE) undermines government contractors' ability to provide guaranteed retirement benefits to their workers.
According to a press release published by DOE on April 27, the agency willno longer reimburse the expenses associated with defined benefit pensioncoverage "for new contractor employees."

EMPLOYERS TAKE A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
Asparity Decision Solutions announces the release of SimHR, an online suite of market research tools that enables companies to design and price health plan offerings that fulfill employee personal and financial needs, while controlling corporate health care costs.

ASPARITY ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF OPERATIONAL RISK TECHNOLOGY
Asparity has delivered decision support and data solutions for employee benefits to some of the largest organizations in the world since 1999.

Employease Partners with Google to Offer Google OneBox for Enterprise Module
Module Enables Fast and Secure Access to Real-Time Employee Information from the Familiar Google Search Box

Concero Technology Teams with Costco, Health Net, and Aetna to Deliver Online Benefits Programs
Washington is fifth state for Concero´s expansion of statewide health benefits for Costco members

HighRoads Launches Benefits Lifecycle Management 2006
New Features Ease Management of Employee Benefits Plans, Lowering CostsWhile Sustaining Quality

BUILDING THE EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SOLUTIONS TEAM
Providing Benefit Solutions to employers along the East Coast

BUILDING A BIGGER, BETTER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SOLUTIONS TEAM
New GE team brings 95 years of combined experience

3PAdministrators Selects Eldorado Computing's ASP Solution for Managing Health Benefits
3PA´s implementation will include the complete suite of ECI´s HEALTHpac products including HEALTHpac, ADMINpac, eReports, WEBeci, and CSIpac.

The results of the sixth annual ACS HR Solutions Canadian Health Care Trend Survey are now available.
This year´s results represent the fourth consecutive year of declining trends led by prescription drugs.

BUILDING A BIGGER, BETTER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SOLUTIONS TEAM
New GE team brings 95 years of combined experience

Delta Dental of California, Pennsylvania and affiliates
San Francisco -- Delta Dental of California, Pennsylvania and their affiliates announced today the award of $40,000 to the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA) -- the highest sponsorship level accorded by that organization.

Premium, Billing Enhancements Mark Travis Software Release WebCOBRA.com's February '06 Upgrade
Personalized web pages, premium disbursement process and client invoicing among more than 100 updates to new version.

BUILDING A BIGGER, BETTER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SOLUTIONS TEAM
New GE team brings 95 years of combined experience

Anthony S. Barth Named President and CEOof Delta Dental Affiliate Companies
Anthony S. Barth, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Delta Dental of California, Pennsylvania and its affiliates was named president and CEO of two affiliated companies, Delta Dental Insurance Company and PMI Dental Health Plan.

Delta Dental introduces international referral service
Partnership with I-SOS makes finding a dentist overseas easier for millions

HighRoads Announces $8 Million in Series-B Financing
Round Reflects Market Imperative for Solutions and Services that Lower Employee Health & Welfare Costs

Jefferson Pilot Financial Unveils "Paycheck Plus" Voluntary Income Protection Benefits
Simplified Insurance Plan Features Four Lines of Coverage in Single Group Rate

Delta Dental gives $312,000 to Louisiana dental students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Consortium of companies, led by Delta Dental of California, donates $1,000 to each student