October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A lot of activities occur to raise the focus on breast cancer and those in our lives who have been impacted by it. We encourage our employees to find ways to support and give back to the community. In the past, our team has raised money and walked in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® to support the cause. This year our female employees decided to support their “sisters” by donating gently used bras to The Bra Recyclers. Accord

Every year we challenge our employees to think about others, give back to their community and raise money for various causes. We accomplish this by donating to or volunteering with a charity of their choice. Benelogic is headquartered in the Baltimore metro area, which is home to some of the best hospitals, specialty medicine, and medical care in the country. With so many worthy causes to choose from, it’s hard to pick just one. But this year employees rallied around Pathfind

There are many important considerations to sift through when picking an ACA support vendor. Making sure your employees receive the completed IRS forms in a timely fashion is surely on your list, but probably isn’t towards the top. It should be higher up than you think. Everyone is concerned about knitting the various data sources together to ensure IRS compliance. Few have thought through the importance of what happens to data when it is ready to be reported on. The HIPAA Pri

Industry trade magazines are referencing ACA deadlines with increasing frequency. Many ACA support vendors have announced they are no longer accepting new business for 2015. Yet, many organizations are still fumbling to find a solution. If your company is still looking for a vendor to assist with ACA Forms Completion, don’t lose any more sleep. We are still accepting new clients for 2015. Slots are filling up quickly. Before another door shuts, contact us. We would love to u

On Friday, June 26th, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on same-sex marriage, making them recognized in all 50 states. The ripple effect of this decision is broad reaching. Our first thought was, how will this impact our clients? When states started expanding the definition of marriage and coverage, our clients turned to us to solve their administration challenges. Fortunately our flexible proprietary platform accommodated these changes with ease. Now that same sex

The events that transpired in Baltimore this week paint a picture of city divided and teetering on total destruction. People from all walks of life are wondering what more they can do to help tackle the problems facing not only our city, but our broader community. Everyone seems paralyzed by inaction, but the reality is change is a slow process and it requires everyone’s involvement, not just the ones most directly impacted. Benelogic supports the community and always has. It

The path to Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance is complex. The range of available ACA services is confusing, disjointed, and still largely undefined. So where do you start? To help you understand some of the options available for your organization and to make the selection process a little easier, we’ve broken down the different service types. Option 1: Manually Manage ACA In-House If your organization’s workforce is almost exclusively full-time employees (FTE), is stabl

Long before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA) was ever conceived, many of the tools now necessary to assist employers with managing the complex provisions of the Healthcare Reform were fundamental features of their Benelogic Manage™ and Benelogic Control™ products. Since the inception of the ACA, we've been working directly with our clients to understand what additional services they need to comply with the significant IRS filing requirements. But

As an online benefit administration vendor, we respond to thousands of inquires about products and services. These requests come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from a single question to a lengthy Request for Proposal (RFP). Regardless of the method used, the goal is the same – to determine if a vendor’s product and services meet the needs of a company prior to making a commitment to purchase. But not all methods are equal. Before embarking on a journey to solve a pro

Some say the end of the year holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s also the busiest. This is particularly true for people working in the benefits industry. Trying to strike a balance between a heavy workload and an endless holiday task list makes it next to impossible to enjoy the spirit of the holiday season. Recognizing how difficult it can be to get everything done some days, we invited November Iglehart, stylist and company representative for Stella

Hiring a new employee can be very expensive and risky. In addition to the cost of the recruitment, there is an investment in training and an uncertainty about whether they are a good fit to the company culture. So what do you do when a highly valued employee moves to a faraway state? Immediately start the recruitment process or come up with a creative way to retain the employee and keep their productivity high? To be most effective, this particular position required a physic

Hurricane Sandy is being called the storm of the century, the perfect storm and a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. It tore through seventeen states leaving more than 8 million people without power, transit infrastructures crippled, towns and cities flooded, burned and buried in snow, and the New York Stock Exchange shut down for two unprecedented days. But amongst this chaos, Benelogic remained opened to ensure their clients benefits enrollment data was successfully captured an

One of the hallmarks of our corporate culture is the constant challenge of status quo – both professionally and personally. In support of this, every quarter, we challenge our employees to engage and rally around a general theme. The bonus for meeting or exceeding the goals of the challenge is three months of casual attire at the office. This quarter’s challenge centered around community service. In the past, this translated into participation in fundraising for breast cance

We've added retiree billing to the list of additional services available to our benefits management and COBRA clients. We manage the benefits eligibility for the retiree population for many of our clients. The more time consuming and labor intensive part for our clients is the billing, collection and remittance of premiums. We have the infrastructure in place to help. In a tight economy, companies are looking for more efficient ways to handle time-intensive, lower-value tas

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings yesterday, declaring Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional and dismissing California’s Proposition 8, many people are wondering about how this decision impacts them. The associated tax implications have a ripple effect on benefit administration for individuals and employers alike. Clients of Benelogic need not worry. The DOMA and Proposition 8 rulings have no impact on our business model. As always, we are rea

For the past six weeks, nearly half the staff at Benelogic transformed their quality of life by modifying their diets and improving their fitness abilities. As participants in the Maryland Athletic Club’s (MAC) Corporate Fit Challenge, they were provided support, structure and motivation, not only by MAC fitness and nutritional professionals, but by one another. The hard work and dedication paid off with impressive results. These include a combined 106 pound weight loss 66 in

One of the hallmarks of Benelogic, an online benefits management company, is its staff. “Bright”, “passionate”, “dedicated”, and “always up for a challenge” are some of often-used phrases to describe the people who work here. It comes as no surprise when Benelogic staff presented the opportunity to compete against one another in the six week Corporate Fit Challenge, sponsored by a local health club, nearly half the employees signed up. Benelogic has a long standing corporate

Today we donated thirty-two (32) computers to two local schools – Federal Hill Preparatory School and Francis Scott Keys Middle School, both located in Baltimore City. The computers will serve as replacements for ones lost as during Title I cutbacks. We first began donating computers to local schools in 2005. Then Baltimore Raven Adalius Thomas reached out to our CEO, Matthew Oros, about sponsoring a golf tournament to raise funds for Johnnycake Elementary School (Catonsvill

We just held our third “BenOlympics” in celebration of the 2012 Summer Games and the Olympic spirit. Our employees gathered at Oregon Ridge Park in beautiful Baltimore County to compete in tests of athletic and intellectual prowess. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and got into the competition. It’s not every day you see your coworkers with Oreo cookies on their foreheads and stockings over their eyes. Our “work hard, play hard” attitude is one of the things our employees

We are proud to announce that our employees completed more than 426 hours of professional development work over the past 3 months. As part of our corporate culture, we challenge our employees to continue to grow personally and professionally. This past quarter, our employees committed to and completed more than 53 workdays of learning. Our employees took on the professional development challenge, and simply blew it out of the water. The zeal and dedication that our employees