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The costs of IVF treatments start around $20,000, but a growing number of companies--particularly in the tech industry--are offering to foot the bill.

Private benefits exchangescommercially marketed platforms on which employees can shop for a wide range of employer-sponsored health and voluntary benefitsare slowly growing and changing in response to market demands.

The GOP tax bill would axe the existing tax deferral of non-qualified deferred compensation packages, affecting public as well as private companies.

Under current law, businesses can write off as much as $1 million in compensation expenses for chief executive officers and four other top-paid bosses, plus any amount beyond that if its tied to performance targets.

Recent benefits industry hires and personnel changes include appointments at Mass Mutual, The Collaborative, Russell Investments, T. Rowe Price, and more.

Lawmakers, consumers and insurers, among others, have complained that pharmacy-benefits managers use opaque deals and rebates to pad their profits, putting the industry under increased scrutiny.

The audits expand on a pilot project launched last year in Philadelphia and put more pressure on plan administrators to find former employees or their beneficiaries so that the benefits theyre owed can be distributed.

Foregone revenue on health care benefits will cost the feds $3.9 trillion -- by far the largest expenditure in the tax code -- which is why group health insurance experts are uneasy about the future of group policies in a tax reform debate.