by Ed Fensholt | July 9, 2020 | Employer Mandate, Essential Health Benefits, Preventive Care
The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration a major, but perhaps temporary, victory in the long-simmering fight over whether employer-sponsored group health plans can be required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide no-cost contraceptives to their...
by Ed Fensholt | June 16, 2020 | Compliance Services, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts
But the rules acknowledge adverse implications for HSA eligibility The IRS has proposed regulations that would treat direct primary care arrangement (DPCA) fees as medical care or medical insurance, opening the door to their reimbursement from health reimbursement...
by Ed Fensholt | February 17, 2020 | Benefits Communication, Employee Communications
The Department of Labor (DOL) has again updated the model Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) notice employers are required to provide annually to employees residing in any state, listed in the notice, in which the employer maintains a group health plan. Most...
by Ed Fensholt | September 30, 2019 | State and Local Issues
A new California law imposes another notice mandate on employers with employees in California. The law will require employers, beginning in 2020, to notify their flexible spending account (FSA) enrollees – via two different modes of communication – about any deadline...
by Ed Fensholt | January 2, 2019 | Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Individual Mandate
The federal trial court judge who last month struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, and then proceeded to strike the entire ACA, ruled on Sunday that the law remains in effect pending appeal. The judge also ruled on Sunday that the states...
