Benefits Education

To understand how Americans make decisions about their health plans, including whether to enroll in a health savings account (HSA), we thought it best to go straight to one of our most valuable sources—the intensive focus groups that were part...

Special Guest Contributor: Justine Burnham Over the last two weeks, you’ve met Rebecca Dunlap and Eddie Medellin, two of the panelists who will participate in our live broadcast of National HSA Awareness Day, to be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, at...

Which medical expenses can you use your health savings account (HSA) to pay for? Which are off limits? It’s a great question, and one whose answer did change earlier this year—to the healthcare consumer’s advantage: In July, the IRS announced...

Special Guest Contributor: Justine Burnham Last week we launched a blog series to introduce you to the National HSA Awareness Day panelists who will be putting their HSA knowledge and experience to work to help more people figure out how...

Special Guest Contributor: Jean Chatzky, with Beth Braverman When it comes to paying for healthcare costs—both now and in the future—health savings accounts (HSAs) are among the most powerful tools available to consumers. They allow consumers who have a HSA-qualified...

How much should you contribute to your health savings account? The short answer is that you should contribute the maximum prorated amount allowed by the IRS, if that’s financially viable for you. As of 2020, you can contribute a maximum...

Healthcare during retirement seems far away for many of us, including me. Retirement planning usually means daydreaming about where you’ll live—Florida or a cabin in the woods, anyone? But data shows that the healthcare expenses we’ll have in 10, 20,...

The back-to-school season is upon us, and as any parent or guardian knows, it can be an expensive time! Between stocking up on school supplies, signing up for extracurricular activities and buying new clothes for the kid who grew two...

WEX Inc. and Fifth Third Bank Release “More Education on HSAs Is Not Enough” White Paper   Employee benefits administrators know that there are very few circumstances in which a high deductible health plan (HDHP) paired with one or more...

We’ve had a lot to say this year about what’s getting in the way of more Americans taking advantage of health savings accounts (HSAs)—and how those of us in the benefits administration industry can remove the hurdles by building health...