The industry standard- fully updated to keep you current on Obama's healthcare reform

For nearly two decades, benefits professionals have depended on The Handbook of Employee Benefits for up-to-date, authoritative answers to their healthcare questions. Covering everything from general objectives, costs, and implementation, this classic reference has been updated for today's transformed, new-economy workplace.

The new healthcare reform bill introduces major changes to how employee benefits plans are designed and administered, and how costs can be controlled. This edition explains it all, as well as new domestic partnership policies, more competitive retirement plans, and more.

Table of Contents

Part One: The Environment of Employee Benefit Plans
Chapter 1: The Environment of Employee Benefit Plans
Chapter 2: Functional Approach to Designing and Evaluating Employee Benefits
Chapter 3: Risk Concepts and Employee Benefit Plans
Part Two: Medical and Other Health Benefits
Chapter 4: Evolving Health Plan Designs
Chapter 5: Managing and Measuring Care Management Intervention Programs
Chapter 6: Health Care Cost Containment
Chapter 7: Consumer-Driven Health Plans
Chapter 8: Dental Plan Design
Chapter 9: Prescription Drug Plans
Chapter 10: Managed Behavioral Health Care Benefits
Chapter 11: Long-Term Care Insurance
Chapter 12: Disability Income Benefits
Part Three: Life Insurance Benefits
Chapter 13: Group Life Insurance Plans
Chapter 14: Applications/uses of life insurance
Part Four: Work/Life Benefits
Chapter 15: Work/Life Benefits
Chapter 16: Time-Off Benefits and Family and Medical Leave Programs
Chapter 17: Dependent Care Programs
Chapter 18: Selectied Additional Benefits
Chapter 19: Financial Planning as an Employee Benefit
Part Five: Social Insurance Programs
Chapter 20: Social Security and Medicare
Chapter 21: Workers' Compensation
Chapter 22: Fundamentals of Unemployement Compensation
Part Six: Employee Benefit Plan Administration
Chapter 23: Employee Benefit Plan Management
Chapter 24: Cafeteria Plan Design and Administration
Chapter 25: Fiduciary Liability Issues Under ERISA
Chapter 26: Communicating Employee Benefits Programs
Part Seven: Group and Health Benefit Plan Financial Management
Chapter 27: Federal Tax Law Requirements for Group Welfare Benefit Plans
Chapter 28: Alternative Insured Funding Arrangements
Chapter 29: Self-Funded Arrangements and Captive Insurance Companies
Part Eight: Employee Benefit Plan Issues
Chapter 30: Welfare Benefits for Reitrees
Chapter 31: Small Company Benefits
Chapter 32: Multi-Employer Plans
Chapter 33: Health Care Quality
Chapter 34: The Globalization of Employee Benefits
Chapter 35: Health Care Reform