by Jay Kirschbaum | July 15, 2020 | Compliance Services, Employer Mandate, Reporting and Disclosure
The IRS has alarmed many employers over the last few years by sending 226-J letters assessing potential penalties for alleged violations of the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While in most cases the employers have been able to dodge those...
by Ed Fensholt | July 9, 2020 | Employer Mandate, Essential Health Benefits, Preventive Care
The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration a major, but perhaps temporary, victory in the long-simmering fight over whether employer-sponsored group health plans can be required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide no-cost contraceptives to their...
by Jay Kirschbaum | October 3, 2019 | ACA Repeal and Replace, Health Reform, Uncategorized
An article caught our eye this week, and underscored the Yogi Berra adage, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Whenever Congress tackles major health care policy initiatives, from Medicare to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the...
by Jay Kirschbaum | August 5, 2019 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform / ACA, Tax Issues
Recently, the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), an association advocating on behalf of large employers that sponsor benefits plans, sent a letter to the IRS. The letter, which addressed the penalty assessment process that has developed under the Affordable Care Act’s...
by Jay Kirschbaum | June 6, 2019 | Compliance Services, HIPAA
The headlines splashed the news about another data breach: this one from Quest Diagnostics, and just days later from LabCorp. Both reported the breaches in recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The filings note that a contractor of both, American Medical...
by Ed Fensholt | January 2, 2019 | Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Individual Mandate
The federal trial court judge who last month struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, and then proceeded to strike the entire ACA, ruled on Sunday that the law remains in effect pending appeal. The judge also ruled on Sunday that the states...
