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EKA Planning Services Literature Samples

With topics ranging from health care reform to health savings accounts to health and wellness, EKA Planning Services has the resources that help you to stay on top of benefits trends, help your employees to stay well and your organization to run more efficiently. This benefits resource library provides an overview of our content offerings with sample titles organized by topic.
With constant changes and regularly released guidance, it is often difficult to stay up to date on health care reform. We provide timely newsletters, articles, and briefs to help you and your employees stay on top of the most recent legislation.

Employer Education

  • Stay informed with the latest information as health care reform provisions take effect.
  • The Health Care Reform: 2021 Compliance Checklist offers a quick way to ensure you are in compliance.
  • Affordable Care Act Toolkits give employers the information they need to navigate health care reform’s compliance requirements. Separate versions are offered for large and small employers.

Health Care Reform Calculators

Use these sophisticated calculators, which can help guide your decisions by modeling the estimated impact of health care reform on your business.
  • Our Health Care Reform Pay or Play Calculator determines what penalties your organization could be vulnerable to in 2021 and beyond, and it estimates the potential penalty amounts.
  • The Health Care Reform Large Employer Calculator determines whether your organization is considered an applicable large employer under health care reform and therefore possibly subject to penalties.
  • Use the Health Care Reform Full-time Employee Tracker to determine which employees are full-time and must be offered coverage to avoid penalties under healthcare reform.
  • Our Section 6055 and 6056 Reporting Workbooks save you time by helping you record the information needed for reporting under Internal Revenue Code Section 6055 and 6056 in one place
  • Use the Affordable Care Act - Cadillac Tax Calculator to identify which plans are likely to incur the excise tax, and even estimate the amount of any tax that could be owed as a result.

Employee Communications

Your employees need health care reform communications that are easy to understand. Provide that with these articles, payroll stuffers and posters.
  • Health Care Reform: General Questions and Answers for Employees discusses commonly asked questions regarding how health care reform may affect your employees’ benefit plans.
  • Health Care Reform: What Does the Individual Mandate Mean to Me? informs your employees about the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and how it affects them.
  • Health Care Reform: The Who, What and When looks at some of the major health care reform provisions that will take effect over the next decade.

Notices and Disclosures

Never go searching for a model notice again. We have dozens of government-issued model notices and disclosures all in one place.
  • Model Creditable Coverage Disclosure Notice
  • Model Notice of Annual Limit Waiver
  • Model Notice for Grandfathered Plans

Presentations

Use these comprehensive presentations for education on healthcare reform legislation.
  • Benefits 101: Health Care Reform Presentation discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the health insurance industry and is meant to supplement the Benefits 101 Guide.
  • The Individual Mandate Presentation details provisions of the Affordable Care Act regarding the coverage threshold, penalties and exemptions associated with the requirement to obtain health coverage.

Benchmark Surveys & Statistics

Stay on top of the latest benefits trends and see how your benefits program compares to those of employers from around the country by using the results of numerous benchmarking surveys.
  • 2020 Health Plan Design Benchmark Summary is a report on data gathered from a 2020 survey of employers from across the country. The summary features various plan design measures, segmented by industry, region, group size and plan type.
  • We also offer several national surveys on topics including health care reform, health plan features, workplace wellness and paid time off benefits.

Plan Design

With information on dozens of sample plan designs and timely benchmarking data, we will help you find the plan that is right for your employees and your organization’s bottom line.

Plan Design Strategies

Want to know more about a different plan design? Uncover the details about a benefit plan with one of the many Plan Designs articles we provide.
  • Plan Designs: Health Savings Accounts provides answers to many commonly asked questions related to HSAs. A chart comparing HSAs, HRAs, FSAs and MSAs is included.
  • Plan Designs: Understanding Trend and the Impact on Your Renewal discusses trend and how it could influence your plan design choice come renewal time.
  • Plan Design: The Self-insurance Guide discusses the pros and cons of self-insuring your organization’s health care plan.

Compliance

Between changing legislation and health care reform, staying compliant has never been more difficult. Not anymore—we deliver all the legislative information you need. This information is released in a timely manner and reviewed by a team of lawyers to keep you updated and compliant.

Federal Legislation & Compliance

Stay up to date with access to valuable information on the ADA, COBRA, CHIPRA, FMLA, HIPAA (including privacy), GINA, Medicare Part D, Mental Health Parity, Section 125 and other federal regulations and employment laws.
  • DOL Audit Guide: Employee Benefit Plans
  • Select Reporting and Disclosure Requirements for Group Health Plans
  • New Participant Disclosure Requirements for Retirement Plans
  • Top 10 COBRA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • Mental Health Parity—Compliance Overview FAQs
  • Changes to HIPAA Rules: HITECH Act
  • HSA Questions and Answers
  • Section 125: Cafeteria Plan Common Questions

State-Specific Legislation & Compliance

Keep track of regional legislative changes with valuable state-specific information related to COBRA, FMLA, disability insurance laws, state mandates, cell phone use while driving, domestic partner laws and rest/meal periods.
  • Same-sex Marriage/Domestic Partner – Laws by State
  • Cell phone Use/Texting While Driving – Laws by State
  • State Disability Insurance Laws
  • Wage and Hours Laws
  • Minimum Length of Meal Period – Laws by State

Human Resources

If your organization is like many, your HR department is overworked and understaffed. We have the tools to help you stay up to date on HR trends, employment practices and social media strategies.

Enrollment Tools

EKA Planning Services can deliver the resources you need to effectively communicate with your employees about benefit enrollment.
  • Employee Benefits Meeting Presentation, Open Enrollment - for Large Groups is a presentation for annual employee meetings about benefits changes and open enrollment procedures.
  • Open Enrollment Education Opportunities provides various methods for employers to educate employees about their benefits plans.
  • 2017 Open Enrollment Checklist contains an open enrollment checklist for the 2021 plan year.

HR Tools

EKA Planning Services has the resources you need to make sure that your HR department is running at peak efficiency.
  • Use the Sample Employee Handbook to defend against wrongful termination, discrimination, and harassment claims. Regardless of organization size, when properly drafted and legally reviewed, the employee handbook can be the cornerstone to good employment practices. This sample handbook and the policies in it can help you craft or improve your own.
  • We have a library of HR Forms that are professionally designed and electronically fillable to help streamline your HR department and reduce waste.

Educational Material

We provide HR professionals with the resources they need to succeed.
  • The topic-specific HR Insights series addresses new and popular HR strategies from across the country, keeping HR professionals in the loop.
  • The HR Q&A series provides fast answers to specific HR questions to help your HR department resolvem issues efficiently.

Workplace Wellness

Your workplace wellness program should certainly affect your employees on the job, but it should also impact their lives away from work. By promoting a healthy lifestyle, you can not only improve your employees’ quality of life, but also protect your workers and your business from unnecessary expenses. We have hundreds of health and wellness documents on a wide range of topics, including:
  • Workplace wellness program how-to articles
  • Low-cost wellness ideas
  • Financial conservation
  • Fitness
  • General health
  • Nutrition/obesity
  • Smoking cessation
  • Weight-loss Winner wellness competition

Employee Health & Wellness

We have over 600 employee communications designed to promote health and wellness both in the workplace and in your employees’ everyday lives.
  • The Live Well, Work Well flyers highlight how to live a healthy life through various lifestyle, diet, and fitness initiatives.
  • The National Health Observances Calendar includes a listing of popular national health and wellness observances for and lists educational employee communications we can provide for each observance.

Employee Consumerism Education

Teach your employees to be wise consumers of healthcare with dozens of educational articles and presentations that discuss topics ranging from health savings accounts to health care terminology.
  • 10 Reasons to Love a Health Savings Account discusses the biggest advantages of HSAs.
  • The Wise Use of the Emergency Room – Presentation and Handout can be used to teach your employees how to save money by knowing when to go to the emergency room, urgent care, or their physicians’ offices.
  • Be a Wise Health Care Consumer – Reduce your Prescription Drug Costs teaches employees how to become savvy consumers of prescription drugs.

Benefits Communication

Get the most out of your benefits program by staying informed and keeping your employees educated. We provide customized benefits communications for both you and your employees on a variety of topics including benefit education, consumer driven health plans and saving for retirement.

Benefits Insights

The Benefits Insights series serves as a reliable resource for all types of benefits-related topics and issues and provides you with answers when you have questions.
  • Employee Benefit Trends
  • Domestic Partner Benefits
  • Employee Benefit Plan Audits: Common Mistakes
  • Educate Employees on the Importance of Life Insurance
  • Comparing MSAs, HSAs, HRAs and FSAs—Which Approach is Best?