On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), a sweeping piece of legislation that includes several provisions impacting employer-sponsored health and welfare benefit plans. The OBBB...more
7/10/2025
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On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., rejecting a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) preventive services mandate. The Supreme Court...more
7/8/2025
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Last year, the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) modified the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to strengthen protections for reproductive health care information (the “2024 Rule”)....more
6/26/2025
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Under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), as amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2021, group health plans and health insurance issuers must conduct comparative analyses to show that...more
5/27/2025
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Among the many Executive Orders issued by President Donald Trump’s administration, Executive Order 14221 (the “Order”) reinforces and expands healthcare price transparency enforcement. This Order builds on Executive Order...more
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), it is important to reflect on the impact this legislation has had on private sector employee benefit plans such as...more
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed bipartisan bills that were proposed to address significant patterns of violence against Michigan’s health care professionals and medical volunteers. Roughly half of emergency room...more