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December 2025 HR Newsletter

Trends Shaping 2026 Employee Benefits

Understanding the latest employee benefits trends can help organizations plan ahead and offer a benefits package that meets the evolving needs of workers. Here are five trends shaping benefits in 2026:

Rising health care costs—Surveys project that health care cost...


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Introducing Forsite Member Advantage: Your Employees’ Secret Weapon to Battling Rising Healthcare Costs.

Healthcare is complicated, and employees feel it every single year. Between plan options, confusing terminology, bills that don’t make sense, and the pressure to make the “right” choice, most peop...

November 2025 HR Newsletter

Progressive Discipline: Pros, Cons and Best Practices 


Early in my career many or most had the impression that Human Resources was part of a dystopian society, relishing in oppressive policies intended to make the workplace miserable. Employees...


Progressive Discipline: Pros, Cons and Best Practices 
By Kristen Jonas, HR Consultant, Kinesiology HR LLC

Early in my career many or most had the impression that Human Resources was part of a dystopian society, relishing in oppressive policies intended to make the workplace miserable. Employees called our department the “Principal’s office” because sure...


October 2025 HR Newsletter

Oct. 15 Deadline for Medicare Part D Coverage Notices


Employers must notify Medicare-eligible policyholders if their prescription drug coverage is credible or not.

The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) requires entities (whose policies include prescription drug coverage) to notify Medicare-eligible pol...



September 2025 HR Newsletter

Oct. 15 Deadline for Medicare Part D Coverage Notices


Employers must notify Medicare-eligible policyholders if their prescription drug coverage is credible or not.

The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) requires entities (whose policies include prescription drug coverage) to notify Medicare-eligible pol...



July 2025 HR News

PCORI Fees Due July 31, 2025

The Affordable Care Act requires health insurance issuers and self-insured plan sponsors to pay Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fees. The fees are reported and paid annually using IRS Form 720.

For plan years ending in 2024, Form 720 and full payment o...

June 2025 HR News

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Fees (PCORI)



The Affordable Care Act imposes a fee on employers that sponsor certain self-insured health plans to help fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). PCORI fees support research to evaluate and compare he...

May 2025 HR News

Federal: 2026 Inflation-Adjusted Amounts for HSAs and HDHPs Released


On May 1, 2025, the IRS released Rev. Proc. 2025-19, announcing the 2026 health savings accounts (HSAs) and high deductible health plans (HDHPs) inflation-adjusted amounts, which are:

Annual HSA contribution limits:

  • Self-coverage only...
April 2025 HR Newsletter

Executive Order Directs Federal Agencies to Improve Health Care Price Transparency


Recently, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) directing federal agencies to issue new guidance to improve health care price transparency. This EO aims to promote a more competitive, innovative, afford...
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