by Mark Holloway | September 13, 2011 | Health Reform
Legislation to Repeal Limits on HSAs and Health FSAs Introduced in the Senate and the House Earlier this year, legislation was re-introduced in the Senate (S. 312) and the House (H.R. 605) to repeal two provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
by Mark Holloway | September 9, 2011 | Health Reform, Insurance Exchanges
[written by Mark Holloway, JD] If you’re familiar with the health reform law, you have heard of the health insurance exchanges. These are vehicles to be established in each state that will allow individuals and small businesses to shop for health insurance coverage...
by Ed Fensholt | September 9, 2011 | Health Reform
A third federal appeals court has now weighed in on the federal health reform law’s “individual mandate,” dismissing a challenge to the mandate not on constitutional grounds, but on procedural grounds. Last month we wrote in a client Alert about a...
by Ed Fensholt | August 26, 2011 | Health Reform
So there was word late Tuesday that the Administration is searching for a work-around to the problem of state reluctance to establish insurance exchanges. More on Tuesday’s news in a moment. But the news set us to wondering, “Why does the healthcare reform law require...
by Jeannie Wilcox | August 25, 2011 | Health Reform, Reporting and Disclosure
Coming soon to a group health plan near you: a summary of benefit coverage – or SBC. Federal agencies have issued proposed rules, including sample SBC documents and instructions, and a new SBC glossary that will need to be included with your four-page SBC. Mark...
by Jeannie Wilcox | August 18, 2011 | Health Reform
Everyone wants to make smart choices. But does the proposed standardized healthcare form (label) unveiled by federal regulators on August 17, 2011 help Americans understand the healthcare coverage they have, or how much a procedure will cost? Yes…and no. The form...
