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 Benefitsfor 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