Timothy Stanton

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

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Eighth Circuit Casts Doubt on Cross-Plan Offsetting for ERISA Health Plans

Employers may soon find themselves reviewing and revising health plan master documents and summary plan descriptions (SPDs) and administrative service agreements with respect to an obscure claims administration practice known...more

3/4/2019 / Benefit Plan Sponsors , Department of Labor (DOL) , Employee Benefits , Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) , Employer Group Health Plans , Employer Liability Issues , Plan Administrators , Plan Documents , Summary Plan Description

New Mental Health Parity Guidance and Enforcement Efforts May Warrant a Deep Dive Into Plan Administration

The Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are making good on their promise to issue more guidance and to aggressively enforce the federal Mental...more

5/14/2018 / 21st Century Cures Initiative , Affordable Care Act , Benefit Plan Sponsors , Comment Period , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Department of Labor (DOL) , Health Insurance , Mental Health , Mental Health Parity Rule , MHPAEA , New Guidance

’Tis the Season to Answer Employer Shared Responsibility Payment Letters From the IRS

The deadline to respond is nearing for employers that received the first wave of Letter 226J mailings proposing to assess them with Employer Shared Responsibility Payments (ESRPs) for 2015 under Section 4980H of the Internal...more

12/21/2017 / Affordable Care Act , Benefit Plan Sponsors , Corporate Counsel , Health Insurance , Internal Revenue Code (IRC) , Reporting Requirements , Shared Responsibility Rule

Raising the Bar to a Perfect Score: Corporate Equality Index to Look for Expanded Health Benefits as Measure of LGBT Workplace...

Employers looking for strong scores on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) in coming years may have to make some unexpected changes to their health benefit programs. Benefit programs are one key component of CEI ratings,...more

1/13/2017 / Affordable Care Act , Benefit Plan Sponsors , Corporate Equality Index (CEI) , Employee Benefits , Employer Group Health Plans

How Does the 21st Century Cures Act Affect Employee Benefits?

There are two key benefits takeaways for employers in the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, which President Obama signed into law on December 13, 2016. The act, which passed both houses of Congress by large...more

12/14/2016 / 21st Century Cures Initiative , Affordable Care Act , Barack Obama , Benefit Plan Sponsors , COBRA , Corporate Counsel , Mental Health Parity Rule , Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Plan (QSEHRAs)

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