by Compliance Services at Lockton | April 30, 2014 | Dollar Limits, Employer Mandate, Health Reform
Most employers are familiar with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that sets upper limits on the out-of-pocket (OOP) maximums that non-grandfathered group health plans may apply to essential health benefits. (We’re referring to these as the “ACA cost-sharing...
by Ed Fensholt | January 8, 2014 | Compliance Services, Health Reform, Health Reimbursement Arrangements
San Francisco authorities have partially reinvigorated—albeit at the eleventh hour—the use of health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) as a way to satisfy the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) for 2014 and beyond. For the first time, the City will...
by Mark Holloway | December 24, 2013 | Excepted Benefits, Health Reform, Individual Mandate
Written by Mark Holloway, J.D. ‘Twas the Friday before Christmas, and federal regulators upheld their tradition of issuing regulatory guidance just before a major holiday. This latest installment proposes changes to the federal health reform law’s (the Affordable Care...
by Mark Holloway | December 1, 2013 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform
Posted on behalf of Mark Holloway, J.D. – Senior Vice President and Co-Director – Lockton Compliance Services The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued proposed regulations that address the requirements that would apply to health...
by Mark Holloway | November 26, 2013 | Health Reform
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this time to decide whether for-profit corporations can refuse to provide insurance coverage for birth control drugs that violate the religious beliefs of the corporations’...
by Ed Fensholt | November 18, 2013 | Health Reform
With storm clouds gathering over the White House last week as insurers cancelled or prepared to cancel millions of individual health insurance policies because the policies fail to conform to the federal health reform law, the White House blinked and offered that, if...
