by Ed Fensholt | January 31, 2022 | Compliance Services, Health Savings Accounts, State and Local Issues
When I was a boy, my dad used to tell me, “If you don’t know what you’re doing, just ask. Better to ask, son, than to have to come back later to fix something you messed up.” It’s a mantra that state legislators should take to heart. Oklahoma is the latest state to...
by Mark Holloway | May 6, 2021 | Affordable Care Act, Compliance Services, Essential Health Benefits, Health Savings Accounts
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced the inflation-adjusted maximum out-of-pocket (OOP) limits that will apply to non-grandfathered plans for plan years beginning in 2022. The OOP limit includes the plan’s deductible and cost sharing...
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 Ethan McWilliams | April 29, 2020 | Form 5500s, Health Savings Accounts, Tax Issues, The Coronavirus
Along with the immediate and unique challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented to employers, these same employers – in their capacity as plan sponsors – are still tasked with their routine benefits plan reporting responsibilities. Individual taxpayers, too,...
by Jay Kirschbaum | August 1, 2018 | Health Savings Accounts, Medicare
Medicare enrollment of an employee has several consequences – including some retroactive consequences – for the employee’s right to make contributions to a health savings account (HSA). But many employees are unaware that Medicare coverage of the employee’s spouse...
by Compliance Services at Lockton | January 15, 2015 | Compliance Services, Dollar Limits, Domestic Partners, Employer Mandate, ERISA, Essential Health Benefits, Form 5500s, Health Reform, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, HIPAA, Life Insurance, Medicare, Mental Health Parity, Misc Health Reform, Preventive Care, Reporting & Disclosure, Reporting and Disclosure, Tax Issues
Compliance deadlines for health and welfare plans continue to abound as we start 2015. In the listing below, we focus on compliance deadlines during the first half of 2015. Although Jan. 1 has passed, we have also included items having compliance deadlines related to...
