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Choosing the right voluntary benefits for your employees can improve utilization and ROI. Learn which voluntary benefits may appeal to your employees and how to communicate them effectively.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2025-25, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2026 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility provisions and premium tax credit program.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) ensures that individuals with mental health and substance use disorders have the same access to treatment as those seeking care for medical and surgical conditions. But achieving parity is complex. This article summarizes past and current legislative efforts to close the gap between mental health/substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits.

On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated a significant portion of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (“Final Rule”), which was implemented on April 24, 2024, on a nationwide basis.

On July 3, 2025, Congress passed a reconciliation bill (the “Reconciliation Act”) previously named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but subsequently redesigned “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.”

New York State has officially enacted the Retail Worker Safety Act, a sweeping new law aimed at improving safety for retail employees amid a rise in workplace violence and theft. The law, signed in 2024, applies to retail businesses with 10 or more employees in New York and imposes a series of new safety requirements.

If you haven’t already heard, New York State is tightening enforcement around Disability Benefits Law (DBL) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) compliance—and the penalties for non-compliance are about to get a lot more serious.

Making wellness a cornerstone of your benefits strategy can lengthen employee tenure, reduce turnover and save on human capital costs. Here are five innovative ways to put wellness front and center.

Understand the when, what and why of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee.