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 Suzanne Bach | September 30, 2021 | Compliance Services, DOL, Health Reform, Reporting and Disclosure
The federal Departments of Health & Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury issued a second round of proposed rules late last week which, when finalized, will solicit utilization and cost data from health insurance carriers, group health plans and air ambulance...
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 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....
by Ed Fensholt | October 5, 2020 | Compliance Services, Reporting and Disclosure, Tax Issues, The Coronavirus, Uncategorized
The IRS has again (as it has in past years) extended the deadline to furnish Forms 1095-C to Affordable Care Act (ACA) full-time employees. The Service has moved the deadline to furnish the forms for 2020 from Jan. 31 to March 2, 2021. The deadlines for filing those...
