by Mark Holloway | March 1, 2016 | Employer Mandate
Your Auditor May Want to Know. After close to six years, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has matured into the massive regulatory behemoth we always feared it would be. After some fits and starts, including delays and transition rules, 2016 marks the first year of...
by Larry Levy, MD | February 25, 2016 | Health Risk Solutions, Preventive Care, Workplace Wellness
If, like me, you’ve been waiting for some good news related to the Zika virus, we finally have some. A rapid test for detecting the virus has been developed by two major Texas health centers, according to an announcement they made earlier this week. The test offers...
by Ed Fensholt | February 18, 2016 | Misc Health Reform
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), with its massive-and-growing-bigger-by-the-day tail of regulations, proposed regulations and other guidance, has created its share of unintended consequences. One of those consequences has fallen hard on health insurance stipends and...
by Compliance Services at Lockton | January 29, 2016 | Health Reform
An FAQ regarding transitional insurance fee (TRF) submissions for 2014 appeared on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “REGTAP” site on May 12, 2015. (CMS uses REGTAP to provide information on several different programs it administers, including TRF...
by | November 13, 2015 | Health Risk Solutions, Preventive Care
Whether we want to think about it or not, flu season is upon us. Fortunately flu activity is low in the US right now, but according to tracking managed by the CDC, there are early signs that activity is beginning to increase. And we all know what that means: messages...
by Mark Holloway | October 28, 2015 | Mental Health Parity, Preventive Care, Wellness
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), US Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the three agencies responsible for policing everyone’s two favorite laws, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the federal mental health parity law,...
