by Mark Holloway | November 6, 2017 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA, Insurance Exchanges, Misc Health Reform
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the Transitional Reinsurance program to help stabilize individual insurance premiums offered through the public insurance exchanges, aka marketplaces. Under this program, sponsors of self-insured plans, as well as insurers...
by Ed Fensholt | October 23, 2017 | ACA Repeal and Replace, Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Individual Mandate, Reporting & Disclosure
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) imposes health insurance coverage mandates on individuals and employers, but to this point the IRS has been slow to enforce the mandates. That may no longer be the case as the IRS signals it is prepared to begin an enforcement effort in...
by Lisa L. Carlson | April 3, 2017 | ADA, Compliance Services, EEOC, GINA, HIPAA, Wellness
Numerous articles have reported that a recent bill passed by the House Education and Workforce Committee – the Preserving Employee Wellness Plans Act (H.R. 1313) – would allow employers to obtain genetic information about their employees which had not previously been...
by Lisa L. Carlson | December 29, 2016 | Compliance Services, Health Reform
Part II: The ACA Effect The Affordable Care Act has prompted employers to provide more tailored health coverage options to their workforce. Some employers have turned to offering medical benefits that are intended to qualify as “excepted benefits.” An excepted benefit...
by Lisa L. Carlson | December 15, 2016 | Excepted Benefits, Health Reform, Uncategorized
Part I – Traditional Excepted Benefits The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has prompted employers to provide more tailored health coverage options to their workforce. Some employers have turned to offering medical benefits that are intended to qualify as “excepted...
by Mark Holloway | November 18, 2016 | DOL, Health Reform
The US Department of Labor (DOL) has issued final regulations that prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who receive a federal subsidy when they purchase individual coverage in an online health insurance exchange, or “marketplace.” Under the Affordable...
