Archive for November, 2007
COBRA Q&A Series 3: Retroactive Premium Rate Changes
Today’s question for my COBRA Q&A Series involves “back billing” or making a retroactive change to a QB’s premium rates. As always with this series, my goal with these posts is to create something of a “knowledge base” over time with these posts, but please always keep in mind when reading these that I am not an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COBRA Q&A Series 2: Incorrect Election Notice
In this next installment of my COBRA Q&A Series we’ll look at a question involving an incorrect COBRA Election Notice (also known as a COBRA Specific Rights Notice). As always with this series, my goal with these posts is to create something of a “knowledge base” over time with these posts, but please always keep in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COBRA Q&A Series 1: QBs & New Employer Plans
This is the first in an ongoing series of posts which I’ll add to over time as we receive interesting COBRA compliance administration questions from our customers and industry friends. We’re unique in the US healthcare benefits administration industry in that before we built a technology and services company to serve this industry we first [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Satisfaction
I enjoyed the Eagles win over the Redskins yesterday. I wasn’t jumping up and down with excitement like I was a few years ago when the team was on the path to the Super Bowl, but I was on the edge of my seat through the fourth quarter, and I did do a little dance [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985)
Why am I writing a post about this law?
COBRApoint (our suite of enterprise SaaS portal applications) empowers employers and third-party administrators (including insurance carriers, administrative service organizations, human resources outsourcers, professional employer organizations, etc.) to administer COBRA compliance and other forms of health insurance continuation such as for retirees. Combined, COBRA continuants and retirees in [...]
Options, Leverage, and Focus in the Startup
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost
Whenever you’re faced with multiple paths forward, choose the most difficult one. It is almost always the right one.
– Thomas Cannon (my first boss)
I’ve worked for some great leaders in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Imprecise Precision and Company Valuation
My Eagles aren’t so good this year, and I’m the kind of sports fan who ties my emotions pretty tightly to the fate of my team (at least until the last whistle blows and I go back to being my kids’ dad). I don’t get loud or violent when my team stinks, but I do [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Evhead, the Valley, and the Awesome Power of Communication
Evan Williams (Nebraska native and co-founder of two Silicon Valley companies that produced Blogger and now Twitter) has written a great post sharing his experiences and thoughts on the pros/cons of the Valley versus anywhere else from the perspective of both an individual wanting to get into the game and an entrepreneur building a new tech startup. [...]
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