by Rory Akers, JD | December 20, 2016 | Compliance Services
While all eyes in the group health insurance world are focused on Capitol Hill and the specter of an Affordable Care Act repeal in 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is already looking ahead to 2018. HHS just announced the 2018 cost-sharing limits...
by Ed Fensholt | October 28, 2016 | Compliance Services, Health Reform, Individual Mandate, Insurance Exchanges, Uncategorized
It could not have been more obvious. When we were on Capitol Hill in 2009 and 2010 talking to members of Congress about the impending Affordable Care Act, we told anyone willing to listen, “If you’re going to federally subsidize individual insurance coverage in new...
by Mark Holloway | October 27, 2016 | EEOC, Wellness
Just when you thought the legal environment surrounding employer wellness programs couldn’t get more complicated, we have the news that the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to block new...
by Rory Akers, JD | October 26, 2016 | DOL, ERISA
Penalties just got steeper, friends. This past summer, the US Department of Labor (DOL) announced substantial increases in civil penalty amounts for certain ERISA violations in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 2015 (the Act). The...
by Mark Holloway | August 10, 2016 | Life Insurance
A federal district court in Connecticut has dismissed a class action suit against an employer and its life insurer alleging that the rates charged employees who purchased supplemental group-term life insurance subsidized the noncontributory, basic coverage provided by...
by Mark Holloway | July 5, 2016 | Compliance Services, Uncategorized
The Office of Civil Rights of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has issued new, final regulations that will prohibit discrimination in health activities and programs (including some employer health plans) for plan years beginning in 2017. The...
