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in this issue:
 Broker Spotlight: One Firm's Seven Keys to Success
For 2011, HSA-Eligible Plan Definitions "Hold Steady"
A Short Guide to Health Accounts and Health Reform
 Broker Spotlight: One Firm's Seven Keys to Success
It’s not your father’s (or your mother’s) insurance business any longer.
To offer the best value to employers today, brokerage and consulting firms are expanding their traditional role of providing health insurance choices into creating programs that promote wellness, healthier lifestyles and more employee involvement in health care cost/care decisions.
Robert A. (“Bob”) Marino, CLU, a partner and practice leader at Ovation Benefits Group of Farmington, Conn., is doing just that.
Passionate about his work and innovative in his approach, Marino shared seven keys that have helped Ovation Benefits Group grow by combining consumer-directed health care plans with incentive-based wellness programs to make employees healthier and lower employers’ costs.
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For 2011, HSA-Eligible Plan Definitions "Hold Steady"
The limits on health savings account (HSA)-eligible health care plans will be the same in 2011 as they have been in 2010. These limits were recently announced by the IRS.
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A Short Guide to Health Accounts and Health Reform
You may be fielding questions from clients about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, signed by President Obama in March, will affect their benefit plans this year and beyond.
Following is a summary of the laws’ impacts on account-based benefit plans. If you have other questions, please call or email your OptumHealth Financial Services representative, or contact us.
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