If one thing can be said about the recent health care reform law, it’s that it has generated a barrage of questions for employers. Will companies drop health care coverage and instead pay the penalty under the... Read more →
Employers in California should be aware of two new aspects regarding maternity coverage: First, Mandatory Coverage for Maternity Benefits on Health Insurance Plans: Effective July 1, 2012, all health insurance policies... Read more →
Please be advised that The CLASS Act –the “mandatory” federally-subsidized Long-Term Care insurance program that, under Health Care Reform was to take effect sometime before 2014—was today essentially... Read more →
Many employers and benefit managers with calendar-year plans are wading into the thick of enrollment season, filling their time with employee meetings and tracking the sign-ups. Enrollment, however, can be more than... Read more →
Important Reminder to Clients: NO LATER than November 14, 2011, most employers[1](regardless of size, profit vs. non-profit, etc.) will have to have the new NRLA “Poster” displayed! Based on whether or not there... Read more →
New proposed rules springing from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would drastically change how companies communicate information about their employer-sponsored benefits. The new guidance would... Read more →
Courtesy of the Department of Health and Human Services, health insurance plans will have a new wrinkle effective August 1, 2012: plans will be required to cover –with no cost-sharing to the employee—certain... Read more →
The federal government continued to rework regulations stemming from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in June amid a key court ruling and a wave of studies that tried to forecast how employers will... Read more →
Employer Compliance Alert As explained in our August 2010 article, “interim final regulations” issued under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) require that group health plans (other than those that are... Read more →
Federal regulators have been busy recently with their own version of spring cleaning, announcing tweaks to Medicare notices, health savings account limits and a host of other proposed rules that would affect... Read more →