by Ed Fensholt | July 17, 2014 | Health Reform
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires non-grandfathered healthcare plans to supply enrollees with a wide variety of preventive care benefits at no out-of-pocket cost. One preventive care mandate is counseling and intervention (apparently at the primary care level)...
by Ed Fensholt | January 8, 2014 | Compliance Services, Health Reform, Health Reimbursement Arrangements
San Francisco authorities have partially reinvigorated—albeit at the eleventh hour—the use of health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) as a way to satisfy the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) for 2014 and beyond. For the first time, the City will...
by Ed Fensholt | November 18, 2013 | Health Reform
With storm clouds gathering over the White House last week as insurers cancelled or prepared to cancel millions of individual health insurance policies because the policies fail to conform to the federal health reform law, the White House blinked and offered that, if...
by Ed Fensholt | October 29, 2013 | Health Reform
Health insurance-related media outlets are reporting that the wall of Democrat-based support for the federal health reform law’s “individual mandate” is beginning to crack. Some Congressional Democrats are calling for a delay in the Patient Protection and Affordable...
by Ed Fensholt | January 21, 2013 | Health Reform, Insurance Exchanges, Reporting & Disclosure
The federal health reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) imposes an obligation on employers to notify all employees by March 1, 2013, about the existence of the state-based insurance exchanges required by the PPACA, and about the value of...
