by Jay Kirschbaum | February 26, 2019 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA
That headline might strike some as coming from The Onion because most benefits professionals assumed any plans with grandfathered status had ceased to exist. At least, it was assumed these plans were so few in number that all participants could fit in a stadium of any...
by Ed Fensholt | January 2, 2019 | Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Individual Mandate
The federal trial court judge who last month struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, and then proceeded to strike the entire ACA, ruled on Sunday that the law remains in effect pending appeal. The judge also ruled on Sunday that the states...
by Mark Holloway | November 2, 2018 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform / ACA, State and Local Issues
The once-dead health insurance responsibility disclosure (HIRD) form for Massachusetts employers has been resurrected in time for the flurry of end-of-year reporting requirements. The commonwealth’s 2006 health reform law, which served as a model for the federal ACA,...
by Scott Behrens | September 11, 2018 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Reporting & Disclosure
The House of Representatives is scheduled to consider a package of bills that would make significant changes to employer requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Reports suggest the package will pass through the Republican-controlled House this week; however,...
by Lisa L. Carlson | May 30, 2018 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform / ACA
The IRS has announced a three-tenths of 1 percent increase in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate affordability threshold for 2019. A minimum value healthcare coverage offer to an employee won’t be considered “affordable” in 2019 unless the employee’s...
by Mark Holloway | March 20, 2018 | ACA Repeal and Replace, Compliance Services, Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Individual Mandate
This week marks the eight-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In that span the law has survived numerous legal challenges, including more than one decision from the US Supreme Court. In a landmark decision in 2012, the high court ruled that the ACA...
