The IRS has announced the 2026 cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for health savings accounts (HSAs), high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), and excepted benefit health reimbursement arrangements...more
5/9/2025
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The Medicare Secondary Payer provisions (MSP) apply to group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees, in both the private and public sectors. MSP’s mandatory reporting requirements are designed to...more
In June 2022, the HHS Office for Civil Rights issued new HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization and state legislation which followed the decision...more
10/21/2022
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The Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) established limitations on the annual out-of-pocket costs that a health plan may impose on a participant. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor and the...more
Many employers offer employees Health Reimbursement Arrangements (“HRAs”) to assist employees meet their health care related expenses. Often such employer funded arrangements are not “integrated” with an insured health plan,...more
In 2007 Connecticut adopted a law requiring employers to adopt cafeteria plans if their employees are required to pay a portion of the health insurance premium for employer-sponsored health insurance through payroll...more
The Affordable Care Act provides individuals with the option of purchasing health coverage through new health insurance exchanges, or “Marketplaces” that will operate in every state effective January 1, 2014 (e.g.,...more