Each year around November, many of us get an opportunity to enroll in our company’s employee benefit programs. You may receive a packet of information with health benefits, flexible spending account enrollment forms, life and disability insurance options and retirement plan information. It all can be a bit overwhelming. However, it is very important that... Read More

According to an article in Tech Times, healthcare providers in the U.S. may lose $305 billion in the next five years due to cyberattacks. One way those attacks keep happening: BYOD, or bring your device to work. One definition of insanity, according to Einstein (and my chief content officer Michael Schreiber), is to do the... Read More

People avoid going to the doctor for many reasons, but cost is a huge deterrent. According to a 2014 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 26% of women and 20% of men delayed or went without health care because of the cost. Medical debt is no joke: For years, it has been the leading cause of... Read More

On TV, people seem to speak comfortably about sexual dysfunction and incontinence products during ads that run during the news hour. But you get in the doctor’s office and get tongue-tied because you need to ask about something really embarrassing: what your health care is going to cost. (And often we don’t. We get our... Read More

Since the Affordable Care Act, the large majority of us have health insurance, which means we all have to figure out how we’ll cover co-pays, deductibles and bills for expenses not covered. While paying a co-pay with cash isn’t unheard of, you may find it more convenient to pay with a credit or debit card.... Read More

How difficult is it to remove a collection account you didn’t know you had (and didn’t even owe) from your credit report? A couple we’ll call Jason and Karen could tell you. They want to buy a house, and he recently retired from the military. Thus, they want their credit to look as good as... Read More