How Healthy is Your Medical-Wellness Benefits Program? - Get Help from your Broker

On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, nfpFMA members heard about a variety of Health Benefits options even small not-for-profits can use. Bill and Barb Heftel of B&H Associates and Bill Maher of MRCT Benefits Plus discussed ways employers can control the cost of medical insurance premiums by using such tools as Health Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Accounts, and Flexible Spending Accounts. The speakers also suggested using online applications so that employees complete one application that in turn populates the carrier applications. Finally, the speakers discussed ways Wellness Plans are addressing the primary factors of healthcare cost: smoking, obesity, lack of physical exercise, and lack of consumerism.

How Healthy is Your Medical-Wellness Benefits Program II - Topic for February 24, 2009

Join us Tuesday, February 24, 2009, when Bill and Barb Heftel of B&H Associates discuss ways to keep health costs in check. This meeting is the second of a two-part series on Health-Wellness. The first meeting in this series was set up to be a round-table discussion on health expense and wellness management concerns, but was cancelled because of a winter storm. Therefore, we have been collecting your thoughts on this topic by email.

Bill and Barb will take up many of the emailed questions and in addition, will offer suggestions we can implement to reduce health care costs and manage wellness plans.

Banking Services for nfp's - There are many choices

On Tuesday, November 25, Susan Aiello, Vice President, Treasury Services of Commerce Bank outlined many of the banking services offered to not-for-profits. From making deposits remotely by scanning and sending, to collecting donations by credit card, paying invoices online, directly depositing payroll, and managing fraud prevention, banks are putting technology to work for us.

Managing Risk in Today's Economy - nfp seminar Thursday, January 29, 2009

RubinBrown accounting's not-for-profit team is presenting a seminar called "Managing Risk in Today's Economy" for Thursday, January 29, 2009. Please visit their web site for more information.

How Healthy is your Medical-Wellness Benefits Program? - We'll know next month!!

Today's meeting was cancelled because of road conditions caused by the winter storm. We will address this topic next month with speakers from B&H Associates. If you have a specific issue you would like the speakers to address next month, then please send it to Paul at pogier@lssmo.org.

How Healthy is Your Medical-Wellness Benefits Program? - Topic for January 27, 2009

Uncertain about how to offer medical continuation correctly? Stressed by the medical insurance bidding process? Unaware that waiting periods and eligibility requirements are actually enforced by medical insurers? Searching for ways to save money on health insurance expense?

If these and other questions have your blood pressure rising, then start off the New Year with a toast to good health by bringing the best practices, ideas, questions, or failings of your nfp's medical benefits or wellness programs to our next meeting, January 27, 2009. The January meeting will be the first of a two-part series on the medical/wellness topic, and will involve a general discussion of health-wellness benefit best practices and issues. So please come ready to share your ideas, concerns, and questions, and we'll do our collective best to provide resolutions. We'll reserve all the unanswered items for the second meeting, February 24, when Bill and Barb Heftel of B&H Associates, a benefit consulting firm, will lend their expert advise and facilitation to what ails us. B&H is associated with MRCT/Benefits Plus, a St. Louis based benefits consulting firm.

Banking Services for nfp's - Topic for November 25, 2008

Join us at our next meeting, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 when our featured speaker from Commerce Bank will present services banks now offer to nfp's. Services include remote deposits, positive pay, paycards, charge card management, electronic donations and other time savers.