by Ed Fensholt | April 11, 2022 | Affordable Care Act, Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA
The Biden administration has proposed regulations under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to make more employees’ family members eligible for subsidized coverage through ACA marketplaces, or insurance exchanges. The move will not affect employers’ obligations under the...
by Ed Fensholt | February 12, 2021 | Affordable Care Act, Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA
To nobody’s surprise, the federal Department of Justice – now under the direction of the Biden administration – has filed papers with the U.S. Supreme Court reversing the Department’s view, espoused to the court as recently as last November, regarding the...
by Ed Fensholt | November 11, 2020 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA, Uncategorized
As if 2020 has not already wrought enough chaos, many employers are finding that their medical plan eligibility rules are about to add insult to their employees’ injuries triggered by furloughs, layoffs or reduced work hours in 2020. Those reduced hours in 2020 may...
by Rory Akers, JD | July 20, 2020 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA
So few health plans remain “grandfathered” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that many benefits professionals may have forgotten there was once a time when most health plans dodged, at least temporarily, several key ACA-imposed benefit mandates due to their...
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 Mark Holloway | July 29, 2019 | Health Reform / ACA
The IRS has announced a nearly 0.1% decrease in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate affordability threshold for 2020. A minimum value healthcare coverage offer to an employee won’t be considered “affordable” in 2020 unless the employee’s share of the...
