One mandate under the PPACA required health care providers, non-grandfathered health insurance issuers and self-insured group health plans to provide consumers with access to information about the cost of services before they...more
3/7/2025
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Employee Benefits ,
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Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
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Members of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Tax and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practices have outlined the recently announced 2018 dollar limits on the Social Security Wage Base, compensation and deferrals for...more
The Affordable Care Act or ACA (a/k/a “Obamacare”) is not dead, yet. Employers are starting to receive letters from the IRS notifying them that they owe assessable payments (“penalties”) under the employer shared...more
Apparently rhetoric matters. Although the former President eventually embraced the term himself, “Obamacare” was originally a derogatory term used for health care reform by Obama’s opponents in Congress. Anecdotal evidence...more
Members of Saul Ewing’s Tax and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practices have outlined the recently announced 2017 dollar limits on the Social Security Wage Base, compensation and deferrals for retirement plans,...more
President Obama has signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), that expands funding for medical research. Hidden within the Cures Act is a provision entitled “Exception from Group Health Plan Requirements for...more
Employers of all sizes are receiving notices from Health Insurance Marketplaces (“Notice” or “Marketplace Notice”) alerting them that an employee or employees have obtained Exchange coverage and are eligible for and receiving...more
Perhaps you have put your compliance efforts on the back burner, hoping the ACA will just go away. We have heard many reasons for this procrastination, including the constitutional challenge to the individual mandate, the...more
SUMMARY: Final Rules were released late in the day on February 10, 2014 implementing the employer shared responsibility provisions of the Affordable Care Act (pay or play rules or employer mandate)....more
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals and small businesses will be able to purchase health insurance coverage online through the new health insurance coverage exchanges (now known as “Marketplaces”)....more
Media coverage of the one year delay in certain Affordable Care Act provisions might mislead some employers into thinking they have no obligations. Many requirements still take effect this year and in 2014. Here is one of the...more
7/25/2013
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Data Protection ,
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Employer Mandates ,
Fees ,
Form 720 ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Omnibus Rule ,
PCORI ,
Self-Insured Health Plans
The Affordable Care Act (a/k/a Health Care Reform, or the ACA) is complicated. While there is nothing in the ACA that requires any employer to provide group health care coverage to its employees, the failure to do so can come...more
7/2/2013
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Employer Mandates ,
Full-Time Employees ,
Grandfathered Obligations ,
Health Insurance Exchanges ,
Healthcare ,
Minimum Essential Coverage ,
Open Enrollment ,
Pay or Play ,
Penalties ,
Self-Insured Health Plans
The Departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services jointly issued final regulations on June 3, 2013 addressing wellness programs under the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) and the HIPAA non-discrimination rules. ...more
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) employer shared responsibility provisions (commonly called “pay or play”) impact “large” employers and go into effect in 2014. Although effective in 2014, employers must plan NOW. Advance...more
For better or worse, the ACA or Health Care Reform is still with us. If you do not want to end up in the penalty box in 2014, you must know whether you are subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions of the ACA...more