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EPIC Now Offering Mental Health First Aid Certifications

Ask About our MHFA Certification EPIC and Cigna have teamed up on Mental Health! Are you interested in completing the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) certification? We’re excited to announce EPIC, in partnership with Cigna, is now offering MHFA training courses to EPIC clients. We welcome all Human Resource (HR) leadership or wellbeing leaders and ambassadors to take advantage of this exclusive offer! In our first series of presentations, we will address mental health challenges and the impact it has in various aspects of an employee’s life. The stigma associated with mental health challenges often discourages people from …

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EPIC Benefits Consultants to Co-Host Women in A/E/C Mentoring Event

How to Create or Improve a Mentoring Program in Your Company Women Mentoring Women Leaders – Session III | Panel Discussion followed by Networking On June 29, we are hosting the next Women in A/E/C event, closing out our three-part series on Mentoring. We’ll discuss Successful Mentoring Programs in the Industry. You don’t want to miss the valuable insights provided by our keynote speakers, Linda Bauer Darr, President/CEO of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), and Robin Greenleaf, CEO of Architectural Engineers, Inc. Suzannah Gill and Joanne Tran invite you to attend! June 29, 2021 …

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Market Pulse Survey: Tuition Reimbursement & Education Assistance Programs

… organization may also establish an Education Assistance Program, such as scholarship grants, for strategic reasons that extend beyond benefiting current employees, prospective employees, or their family members. This offers additional benefits such as tax breaks, promoting retention, reducing recruiting costs, and adding cultural value. THIS SURVEY HAS NOW CLOSED 2021 Employee Benefits Compliance Webinar Series The employee benefits compliance landscape is in a state of constant change. EPIC believes that timely, accurate communication regarding impactful changes – and the resulting requirements, exposures and opportunities – is a chief responsibility for employee benefits brokers, consultants and professional advisors. Upcoming Webinar Thursday, July 8 …

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Are You Leveraging Total Compensation Statements?

We all know the deal – every renewal season, benefits professionals around the country spend countless extra hours working with their brokers/consultants. We function together like a well-oiled machine; making decisions with account executives for employee benefits packages, drafting benefits guides with communications partners and finally going through open enrollment. Viewpoints from Jodi Perry I have dedicated my career to employee communications and I can say with confidence that most employees do not read what I put together for them. I get it – I really do. There’s so much information for employees to absorb and the one thing …

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Bite-Sized Insights Into a World of Risk Volume 2, Issue 10

Bite-Sized Insights Into a World of Risk  Volume 2, Issue 10 In this issue, we take a focused look at the following: Feature Focus What’s Wrong With the Weather? Supply Chain and Business Risks FMCSA Extends Waivers Affecting CMV Operators Operation Safe Driver is Coming Cybersecurity Executive Order Recommends Best Practices Insurance Products and Coverage Information Presumptive Compensability News of Note Human Resources and Employee Benefits OSHA Releases New Coronavirus Emergency Temporary Standard Insights from Across the Firm The coronavirus crisis created the need to provide commentary on areas of concern. With the evolution of the pandemic, going …

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Federal Court Dismisses ERISA Plan Participants’ Cross-Plan Offsetting Claims

… the TPA or insurer of a medical plan may withhold payments to a provider on a new claim to recoup overpayments made to that same provider for other claims paid out under that same plan. TPAs or insurers typically withhold payments to regain overpayments in cases such as coordination of benefits, subrogation or payment mistakes. Cross-plan offsetting occurs when a TPA, or insurer, with multiple employer clients, offsets payments to a particular provider for one client’s plan to recoup the overpayments made to that provider from another client’s plan or policy. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act …

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Where’s the Healthcare Money Made? Pharmacy

It’s no secret that pharmacy spend has exploded in the last several years. Prescription drug costs are approaching, or in some cases exceeding, 30% of their total claims spend – a dramatic increase from less than 10% two decades ago. The large health insurance carriers have all integrated with large pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and the major consulting firms have built out specialty pharmacy consulting practices or coalitions. Increasingly, most of the healthcare money is being made in pharmacy. This is a critical fact that each of our clients must understand or they risk overspending on their benefits plan. Viewpoints …

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EPIC Pharmacy Team Delivers the State of Specialty Drug Spend

Specialty Spend Is on the Rise Again EPIC recently unpacked everything you need to know about the state of specialty, with a specific focus on biosimilar and specialty generics. We continue to see double-digit increases in per member per year cost for specialty drugs, and nearly 40% of that spend occurs in the medical benefit. Rigorous management across both benefits is critical to managing overall specialty spend. This webinar uncovered what is driving increased spend and what you can do about it.  Agenda: Deeper dive into specialty spend and what you can do about it Emerging trends in biosimilar …

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