PEO Benefits.(Professional employer organizations.)(Brief Article)

HSAs can be useful in supplying your employees (and yourself) with health insurance. Learn more about these valuable tools.

You can find information on medical and health plans under Insurance in the Business Advice section of AllBusiness.com. A Checklist of Issues to Review for Health Insurance is also available for preview at AllBusiness.com. You can get basic information on medical and health plans from the U.S. Depar ......

For small businesses in need of affordable health insurance, purchasing alliances and association plans are alternatives to traditional group insurance. Health purchasing alliances, also called purchasing pools, are private, nonprofit organizations that bring small businesses together to buy health insurance as a group. The idea is simple: strength in numbers....

Most small businesses will choose between two types of managed care plans — health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs).

Two health insurance options are usually sufficient for most start-up organizations. Give employees a choice between a health maintenance organization (HMO) and a preferred provider organization (PPO).

Outsourcing -- the practice of using outside firms to handle work normally performed within a company -- is a familiar concept to many entrepreneurs. Small companies routinely outsource their payroll processing, accounting, distribution and many other important functions -- often because they have no other choice. Many large companies turn ......

Learn how to help your business save money on basic human resources costs by using a Professional Employer Organization, or PEO.

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If you've been in business very long, you've discovered that wearing all those business hats can be a huge challenge. An especially challenging hat can be the one of the human resources role -- hiring employees, handling payroll, managing healthcare. Not the best use of a small business owners time....