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Medicare-Eligible Employees Pose HR Challenges

February 8, 2019

Via: SHRM

Older employees are working longer, and the gap between the age for Medicare eligibility (65) and normal retirement age (soon to be 67) is increasing. As a result, employers are more likely to have Medicare-eligible employees on the payroll and participating in their employee health benefit plans.

If employers have not already fielded questions about Medicare enrollment penalties, whether Medicare or the employer plan is the primary or secondary payer of health claims, and how Medicare eligibility impacts health savings accounts (HSAs), they likely will in the future.

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