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...
by Ed Fensholt | December 28, 2018 | Health Reform
Updated Jan. 22, 2019 The other shoe drops on the Trump administration’s contraceptives coverage rule A second federal judge has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s recently final regulation on contraceptive coverage under group health plans. The...
by Ed Fensholt | September 5, 2018 | Health Reform
When I was a boy, I would sometimes seek permission from my father to do something that I was fairly sure (if not entirely certain) my mother would disapprove of. Dad would inevitably say, “OK by me, but ask your mother.” Dad’s reluctance to be the decider was...
