by Ed Fensholt | August 15, 2018 | Compliance Services, ERISA, Insurance Exchanges, State and Local Issues, Uncategorized
The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), an employee benefits advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Seattle, seeking to overturn a Seattle initiative compelling large hotels to provide generous and heavily subsidized health insurance to their...
by Mark Holloway | November 6, 2017 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA, Insurance Exchanges, Misc Health Reform
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the Transitional Reinsurance program to help stabilize individual insurance premiums offered through the public insurance exchanges, aka marketplaces. Under this program, sponsors of self-insured plans, as well as insurers...
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 Ed Fensholt | June 19, 2015 | Health Reform, Insurance Exchanges
A blistering report this week by the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Office of the Inspector General found shockingly poor accountability efforts by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) related to its payment of Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
by Compliance Services at Lockton | October 13, 2014 | CHIPRA, Compliance Services, Employer Mandate, ERISA, Form 5500s, Grandfathered Provisions, Health Plan Identifiers, Health Reform, Insurance Exchanges, Preventive Care, Reporting & Disclosure, Reporting and Disclosure
In the world of employee benefits, one of the sure signs that fall has arrived is a flurry of articles regarding compliance deadlines to be met before the end of the year. To help you get a jump on next year’s issues, we have also included some of the compliance...
by Mark Holloway | August 8, 2014 | Health Reform, Insurance Exchanges
The board responsible for securing financing for Colorado’s health insurance exchange – Connect for Health Colorado – has imposed a new fee on health insurance polices to help fund the state’s insurance exchange. Colorado is one of a handful of states that chose to...
