Apr 26, 2024 | Caroline Fraker, Compliance, MedBen University, Mental Health, Mental health parity, Regulatory, Roundtables
At the Municipality & Public Employer Roundtable on April 24, MedBen Senior Vice President Caroline Fraker discussed mental health parity and how proposed rules are expected to affect self-funded employers in 2025. “Mental health and substance use disorder...
Sep 15, 2023 | Caroline Fraker, Drug costs, Drug reimportation, Prescription, Rx Costs
MedBen Senior Vice President Caroline Fraker was a featured speaker at the 10th Annual Sherrill-Morgan Healthcare Innovation Conference on September 15th. She spoke on the topic of drug importation, including the reimportation of U.S. manufactured prescription drugs...
Jul 25, 2023 | Caroline Fraker, Claims data, Compliance, Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA), No Surprises Act (NSA), Regulatory
MedCity News reports on the latest in a series of lawsuits by large self-funded employers against national carrier administrators. These cases place a spotlight on health plan administrators that do not provide employers access to their medical claims data, in...
Apr 4, 2023 | Caroline Fraker, Carve-outs, Compliance, Cost Savings, Dialysis, MedBen University, Regulatory, Savings, Supreme Court
At this year’s MedBen University roundtables, Senior Vice President & CPO Caroline Fraker provided an eye-opening example of why the June 2022 United States Supreme Court decision in the matter of Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v....
Oct 3, 2020 | Brian Fargus, Caroline Fraker, Conferences, Prescription
MedBen Vice Presidents Caroline Fraker and Brian Fargus were among the featured speakers at the Sherrill-Morgan 7th Annual Healthcare Innovation Conference on Thursday, October 1. In her presentation, Senior Vice President Fraker discussed the potential problems of...
Apr 5, 2020 | Announcements, Caroline Fraker, Compliance, Consumer-driven Health Plans, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dependent care assistance plan (DCAP), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Flexible spending accounts (FSAs), Health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs), Kentucky, News, Ohio, Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, Prescription, Regulatory, Telemedicine
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rush of new federal and state laws to address the need for testing and treatment of the coronavirus, in addition to resulting issues from work and child care changes. Many of these rules directly affect MedBen clients, so it’s...
