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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC), also known as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute passed in March of 2010. The Act creates a nationwide insurance system and provides federal... more +

A win for telehealth providers, health plans, and participants: HDHP telehealth safe harbor permanently reinstated

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/21/2025

On July 4, 2025, the president signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) into law. Among many other healthcare provisions, the bill permanently extends the telehealth safe harbor for high-deductible health plans (HDHPs)...more

SECURE Act In; Cadillac Tax Out: The Spending Act Makes Serious Changes to Benefits Rules

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/23/2019

Below is a summary of those key provisions. I. SECURE Act The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act, H.R. 1994) is arguably the most significant and comprehensive retirement saving...more

New OIG Rules Change Patient Incentive Program Landscape: Where Are the Limits Now?

McDermott Will & Schulte on 4/11/2017

With health care becoming more consumer-driven, health care providers and health plans are wrestling with how to incentivize patients to participate in health promotion programs and treatment plans. As payments are...more

Health Law Insights: January Newsletter

Roetzel & Andress on 1/27/2017

ALERT: Health Reform Outlook for 2017: A Year of Major Uncertainty - Fulfilling their promises, Congressional Republicans moved to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the first day of the new Congress when Senate...more

HHS OIG Finalizes New Exclusion Rules as Administration Exits

Hogan Lovells on 1/13/2017

With just a week left before a new administration takes office, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) finalized changes to the regulations authorizing OIG to exclude...more

The AHA’s Letter to Santa Claus

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 1/10/2017

The American Hospital Association, after having been “nice” all year, penned its letter to Santa Claus with its wish list for Christmas. Its four page letter (actually addressed to President-Elect Donald Trump at 1717...more

Issue 104: Departments Issue FAQs on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and Request Comments on Tobacco Cessation...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/15/2016

On October 26, 2016, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (the Departments) published issue 34 of their series of FAQs on the Affordable Care Act, found here. The FAQs discuss the Mental Health...more

Monthly Benefits Update - November 2014

Franczek P.C. on 12/8/2014

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review of ACA Case Involving Premium Subsidies Offered Through Federally Facilitated Exchanges - The Supreme Court granted review in King v. Burwell, a Fourth Circuit case that upheld an IRS...more

Monthly Benefits Update - November 2013

Franczek P.C. on 12/3/2013

Health & Welfare Plans - Health Care Reform: Supreme Court Grants Review to Two Cases Challenging ACA’s Contraception Coverage Mandate - The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases challenging...more

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