by Ethan McWilliams | February 10, 2022 | CHIPRA, Compliance Services, DOL, ERISA, Mental Health Parity, Reporting and Disclosure
ERISA penalties adjusted for inflation The Department of Labor’s (DOL) enforcement wing, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), recently made inflation adjustments to penalty amounts for various ERISA welfare benefit plan violations. Federal regulations...
by Jay Kirschbaum | September 24, 2019 | DOL, Mental health, Mental Health Parity
The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued new guidance to help plan administrators determine whether certain coverage guidelines applied to mental health and substance abuse treatment are permissible. This new FAQ supplements the slew of guidance previously issued in...
by Rory Akers, JD | June 27, 2017 | Mental Health Parity
The three federal agencies responsible for enforcing mental health parity rules recently issued additional guidance clarifying that eating disorders are mental health conditions — making health insurance benefits for eating disorders subject to the parity...
by Mark Holloway | October 28, 2015 | Mental Health Parity, Preventive Care, Wellness
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), US Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the three agencies responsible for policing everyone’s two favorite laws, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the federal mental health parity law,...
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...
by Mark Holloway | July 24, 2012 | Compliance Services, GINA, HIPAA, Mental Health Parity, Non-Discrimination, Reporting & Disclosure, Reporting and Disclosure, Wellness
The DOL has posted on its website a 38-page self-compliance checklist that covers several of the major laws that apply to employer group health plans. The Self-Compliance Tool is located at http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/pdf/CAGAppA.pdf The checklist includes questions on...
