by Ed Fensholt | December 24, 2014 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
Posted on behalf of Ed Fensholt, J.D. – Senior Vice President and Director – Lockton Compliance Services Something worth noticing played out in the Green Mountain State last week. Vermont, no stranger to progressive politics, abandoned its single-payer healthcare...
by Mark Holloway | July 28, 2014 | Employer Mandate, Individual Mandate, Misc Health Reform
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has indicated that it will not require insurers in the U.S. territories to comply with some of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) insurance market reforms. The U.S. territories include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin...
by Mark Holloway | January 4, 2013 | Co-Op Plans, Cost of Living Adjustments, Insurance Exchanges, Misc Health Reform, Tax Issues
President Obama signed into law on Wednesday the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, a last minute compromise by federal lawmakers that pulled the nation away from the “fiscal cliff.” The law makes permanent numerous federal tax provisions scheduled to expire on...
by Ed Fensholt | January 2, 2013 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
The IRS has released its first set of formal, proposed regulations, and a parallel set of questions and answers, on the health reform law’s “play or pay” mandate on employers. Lockton is preparing two separate Alerts to address the 144 pages of regulations, but here’s...
by Jeannie Wilcox | June 7, 2012 | Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
In Washington, when they want to get a read on what employers are thinking about health reform, they call employers…AND they call Lockton Benefit Group experts. Multiple times since the health reform law passed in 2010, Lockton executives have testified, and...
by Ed Fensholt | November 8, 2011 | Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
The health reform law imposes a number of fees, taxes and other assessments on health insurance companies and plans, to help subsidize a number of endeavors. Several clients have asked about these fees, taxes and assessments. The purpose of this blog posting is to...
