by Jay Kirschbaum | August 30, 2021 | Compliance Services, Reporting and Disclosure
We all celebrated the end of the PCORI fee [1] only to have it sneak back in under the cover of the elimination of the Cadillac tax (and some other fees on health plans) in 2019. The PCORI fee filing and payment deadline recently passed, but if you missed it or made a...
by Ed Fensholt | August 3, 2021 | Benefits Administration, Compliance Services, Health Reform, Reporting and Disclosure
Start lining up a payroll and/or ACA reporting vendor now The IRS has proposed two significant changes to electronic filing requirements for various information returns including not just the Forms 1094-C and 1095-C filings required of many employers by the Affordable...
by Paula Day | July 28, 2021 | Compliance Services
August is National Breastfeeding Month. With many employers starting to see employees migrating back to the office with more regularity, addressing lactation breaks and related accommodations may be something you haven’t had to give much thought to during this time of...
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 Paula Day | April 27, 2021 | Compliance Services, FMLA, Paid Leave Laws, The Coronavirus
In a pending Pennsylvania case (Payne v. Woods Services, Inc.), the trial court hints that the FMLA may apply in the case of an employee who is asymptomatic but tests positive for COVID-19 and is unable to telework. While the case survived a motion to dismiss, the...
by Ethan McWilliams | April 7, 2021 | Compliance Services, Health Reform, Reporting and Disclosure, State and Local Issues
Amidst the pall of the pandemic, we celebrate little rays of sunshine. Here’s one: San Francisco has postponed its Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) annual reporting obligation for the 2020 calendar year from the end of this month to at least Oct. 31, 2021....