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Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms... more +
Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms helping to make sense of insurance, employment, tax, securities, M&A, risk management, and every other consideration touched by this crisis. Follow the channel for a daily email brief of the latest and best updates. less -
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Benefits Monthly Minute - July 2025

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The July Monthly Minute highlights several benefits provisions under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and offers reminders about upcoming PCORI and Form 5500 deadlines. Many Benefits, One Big Beautiful Bill On July 4, 2025,...more

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High Deductible Health Plan First Dollar Coverages in Flux

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A recent string of lawsuits, regulatory guidance, and market trends have dramatically impacted the types of services that enjoy first dollar coverage under high deductible health plan (HDHP) and health savings account (HSA)...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

HSA Holders Lament the End of the Era of Free Invasive Nasal Swabs: IRS to Remove COVID Exemption for HDHPs

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In light of the end of the COVID-19 National Emergency and Public Health Emergency, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has announced the end of prior COVID-19-related special rules for health plan...more

Holland & Knight LLP

IRS Clarifies HDHP Coverage of COVID-19 Testing, Treatment Before Deductible

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The IRS recently issued Notice 2023-37 (Notice) relating to pre-deductible coverage of COVID-19 testing and treatment under high-deductible health plans (HDHPs). Specifically, the Notice establishes a 2024 expiration date for...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

COVID-19 Coverage Without a Deductible Ends After 2024

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new guidance, Notice 2023-37, which states that for plan years ending after December 31, 2024, HSA-compatible high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) will no longer be permitted to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

COVID-19 PHE Ends May 11: What It Means for the Provision of Telehealth Under Medicare

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The Biden Administration announced on Jan. 30, 2023, its intent to end the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. Fortunately, the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) extends certain key telehealth...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] How Employers Should Prepare for the End of the Covid-19 National & Public Health Emergencies - April 3rd, 12:00 pm -...

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The Biden administration recently announced its intention to end the COVID-19 National Emergency and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency effective May 11, 2023. These emergency declarations have been in place for nearly...more

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Regulatory Actions Impacting Health Insurers and Managed Care Companies in Response to COVID-19

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As health insurers and managed care companies work to serve their patient communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, they must also track and adapt to a multitude of new state and federal COVID-19-related regulatory actions...more

Stoel Rives LLP

CARES Act Provisions Impact Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans, HSAs and Student Loan Payment Assistance Benefits

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Congress has enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”), the third major federal piece of legislation responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The CARES Act follows the enactment of the...more

BakerHostetler

FAQs: COVID-19 – Employee Benefits

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Q: Can my high-deductible health plan offer free coverage for COVID-19 expenses (before the deductible is met) and still remain health savings account (HSA) eligible?...more

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Coronavirus and Health Plans: Changes to Cost Sharing for COVID-19 Testing and Treatment - Employee Benefits Alert

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The nation’s lawmakers, government agencies, and insurance carriers are taking measures to remove financial barriers to testing and treatment for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Employers sponsoring health plans...more

White and Williams LLP

Internal Revenue Service Guidance on High Deductible Health Plans Due to COVID-19

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COVID-19 (commonly referred to as the coronavirus) has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The disease is highly contagious, and has recently resulted in unprecedented measures being taken by both...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

COVID-19 developments in employee medical insurance

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HDHP and HSA participants - The IRS has expanded prior guidance to allow health plans to pay first-dollar costs for testing and treatment of COVID-19 without jeopardizing the participant’s HSA eligibility. ...more

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IRS Guidance: High Deductible Health Plans May Waive Deductible for COVID-19 Testing

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Employers and health plans that want to provide some relief for participants during the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19) may waive deductibles for COVID-19 testing without...more

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IRS Issues High Deductible Health Plan Guidance Related to COVID-19

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On March 11, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-15, allowing health savings account (HSA)-compatible high deductible health plans (HDHPs) to provide coverage for testing and treatment of COVID-19-related services without an...more

Cozen O'Connor

IRS Announces High Deductible Health Plans Can Cover COVID-19 Expenses Without Applying a Deductible

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Employers across the country are currently considering what actions to put in place in light of the potential spread of COVID-19 (the coronavirus). Many employers offer their employees high-deductible health plans that can...more

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High-deductible Health Plans May Cover COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Costs

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Summary - To facilitate the nation’s response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), also known as the Coronavirus, the Internal Revenue Service advised in IRS Notice 2020-15 that a high-deductible health plan (HDHP),...more

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IRS Provides Relief for High-Deductible Health Plans to Cover COVID-19 Testing and Treatment Without Deductibles

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a notice that allows individuals to participate in a health savings account (HSA) while participating in a high deductible health plan (HDHP) that provides coverage for both the...more

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IRS Issues Helpful Coronavirus-Related Guidance for Employers with High Deductible Health Plans

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Benefit plan sponsors are responding to participant questions about the coronavirus/COVID-19. In particular, employers’ HR departments are fielding questions about whether their health plan will pay for any necessary testing...more

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IRS Grants COVID-19 Relief for High-Deductible Health Plans

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In response to the unprecedented public health emergency posed by the 2019 novel coronavirus (known as “COVID-19”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2020-15 (“Notice”) to allow a high-deductible health plan...more

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In Response to COVID-19, IRS Provides High Deductible Health Plan Relief

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On March 12, 2020, the IRS issued notice 2020-15, providing that a health plan will not fail to be a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) merely because it provides testing for and treatment of COVID-19 without a deductible or...more

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COVID-19: Developments in Employee Benefits

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Health Plan Coverage of COVID-19. Colorado has become the latest state to instruct insured health plans to cover COVID-19 testing and benefits (such as office visits) at no cost to the member...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Health Plan Coverage of Coronavirus Testing and Treatment

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With the news about the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) in the U.S. and the world rapidly evolving, group health plan sponsors need to address how the plan will provide virus-related benefits. ...more

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IRS Loosens HSA Rules for Coronavirus

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On March 11, 2020, the IRS issued Notice 2020-15, to address an important coronavirus issue for high-deductible health plans that are coordinated with health savings accounts (“HSAs”). The guidance paves the way for health...more

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IRS Issues Guidance on COVID-19 Coverage for High Deductible Health Plans

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In response to the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”), the Internal Revenue Service advised that a health plan that otherwise satisfies the requirements to be a High Deductible Health Plan (“HDHP”) under section 223(c)(2)(A) will not...more

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