by Mark Holloway | February 20, 2012 | Dollar Limits, Essential Health Benefits
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has issued a set of twenty-two frequently asked questions on essential health benefits (EHBs) under the Patient Protection and...
by Mark Holloway | February 10, 2012 | Health Reform, Preventive Care
Seeking to curtail the political uproar over birth control and religious liberty, President Obama announced today a compromise on the requirement that non-grandfathered health insurance plans offered by religiously-affiliated institutions offer free birth control to...
by Mark Holloway | January 23, 2012 | Health Reform
On January 20, 2012 the Obama administration announced it would give Catholic hospitals and other religiously-affiliated institutions an additional year to comply with a health reform rule requiring non-grandfathered health plans to provide free birth control to...
by Ed Fensholt | January 20, 2012 | Health Reform
Two studies released recently paint starkly different pictures regarding the ability of the nation’s health care system to reduce costs by coordinating care and paying health care providers on the basis of quality and efficiency. The studies are interesting because...
by Ed Fensholt | January 18, 2012 | Health Reform
The White House today issued a report describing the progress 10 states have made in establishing Health Insurance Exchanges. Recall that under 2010’s federal health reform law, every state is tasked with establishing an insurance exchange—a sort of online purchasing...
by Ed Fensholt | January 12, 2012 | Compliance Services, Health Reform
Effective January 1, 2013, health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) must limit benefits to $2,500 per calendar year per enrolled employee. The limit appears to apply only to employee pre-tax contributions to health FSAs. Because the vast majority of health FSAs are...
