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 Mark Holloway | July 14, 2016 | Misc Health Reform
In late 2014, Congress enacted a law intended to clarify how the requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) applied to health insurance provided to US expatriates—both US nationals abroad and foreign nationals in the US. The Expatriate Health Coverage Clarification...
by Ed Fensholt | February 18, 2016 | Misc Health Reform
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), with its massive-and-growing-bigger-by-the-day tail of regulations, proposed regulations and other guidance, has created its share of unintended consequences. One of those consequences has fallen hard on health insurance stipends and...
by Compliance Services at Lockton | May 14, 2015 | Compliance Services, ERISA, Grandfathered Provisions, Health Reform, Misc Health Reform, Preventive Care
New frequently asked questions (FAQs), define the contraceptive coverage that a non-grandfathered group health plan must provide in order to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate to cover certain preventive services without cost-sharing. The FAQs refer to...
by Ed Fensholt | April 28, 2015 | Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
Congressional Democrats today introduced a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s “Cadillac Tax.” Judging by the number of Congressmen moving to co-sponsor the bill, it appears the Cadillac Tax is as largely disfavored on Capitol Hill—at least in the House of...
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...
