Departments Publish Updated SBC Template, Making Few Changes for 2014
On April 23, 2013, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury (the “Departments”) issued an updated template and sample completed template for summaries of benefits and...
View ArticleNew FAQs Issued on Nondiscrimination, Clinical Trial, and Reporting...
The Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (collectively, the “Departments”) recently issued a set of Frequently Asked Questions (Part XV) (the “FAQs”), which provide that,...
View ArticleKey Component of Affordable Care Act Might Be Invalid
Yesterday two federal courts of appeal reached opposite conclusions on the question whether individuals in 34 states are eligible for federal subsidies when they purchase health insurance coverage....
View ArticleEEOC Seeks to Stop Use of Financial Incentives for Wellness Program...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has requested that the United States District Court of Minnesota stop Honeywell from implementing a wellness program that would provide financial...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act Issues for U.S. Expatriates
By now most employers are beginning to come to terms with the Affordable Care Act coverage mandates and reporting requirements that apply to the group health coverage of their U.S. workforce. For...
View ArticleHHS Creates A New Out-of-Pocket Limit For Health Plans
In case you missed this development—which was buried in the preamble of a 129-page Federal Register notice dealing mainly with rules for the individual and small group markets—HHS has created a new...
View ArticleMore Guidance on New Cost-Sharing Limit
A few weeks ago we posted about a new out-of-pocket limit for group health plans that provide family coverage. HHS announced that the ACA cost-sharing limit for self-only coverage applies to each...
View ArticleSupreme Court Saves Affordable Care Act Again
For the second time in three years, the U. S. Supreme Court has upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court ruled last week in King v. Burwell that premium tax credits are...
View ArticleInterim Guidance for Expatriate Health Plans
The IRS has provided interim guidance in Notice 2015-43 on the application of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act to expatriate health insurance issuers, expatriate health plans, and...
View ArticleRepeal of the ACA’s Individual Mandate: Potential Impact on Employers
Part of Our Series on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 Starting January 1, 2019, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) permanently repeals the Affordable Care Act’s tax penalty on individuals...
View ArticleDOL Finalizes Highly Anticipated Rule Aimed at Expanding Access to...
In January, we posted about the Department of Labor’s (DOL or the “Department”) proposed rule to allow more Association Health Plans (AHPs) to be regulated as large group health plans. The proposed...
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