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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Why More Employers Are Turning to ICHRA for Affordable Health Care Benefits

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Many employers have faced the same “knot in the stomach” moment during insurance renewal season. We’re all too familiar with the stress of inexplicably rising health care costs, especially when group plan risk pools take an...more

Robinson+Cole ERISA Claim Defense Blog

Ninth and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals Rule that Preauthorization Process Does Not Impose Independent Contractual Liability on...

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Within days of one another, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Second Circuits ruled—on issues of first impression for both—that ERISA expressly preempts state law breach of contract and promissory estoppel claims...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - June 2024

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This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions with issues spanning physician power of attorney to preexisting exclusions and the fiduciary duty of an insurance company....more

Baker Donelson

Six Months of Paid COBRA Premiums for "Assistance Eligible Individuals"

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On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) into law. Included among the many pandemic relief provisions in ARPA is a COBRA subsidy structure that is now designed to fully subsidize...more

Hutchison PLLC

Client Alert: Joint Guidance Gives Immediate Relief to Small and Midsize Businesses

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The IRS and DOL recently issued joint guidance enabling small and midsize employers to begin taking advantage of two new refundable payroll tax credits which are designed to immediately and fully reimburse them,...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Could new Individual Coverage HRAs replace your group health plan?

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Employers and employees are continually feeling the pinch of rising health care costs. 2020 provides a potentially better approach to consider: Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs)....more

Verrill

ICHRAs: A Flexible and Predictable Health Care Benefit

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On Thursday, January 30, members from Verrill's Employment & Labor group, as well as some from the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation group, conducted a full-day seminar full of employment law related topics that...more

Fisher Phillips

Health Reimbursement Arrangements: What Employers Need To Know And Avoid

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Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) are account-based health plans funded with employer contributions to reimburse eligible participants and dependents for medical expenses. Prior to the Affordable Care Act, HRAs were...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Beginning In 2020, Employers May Reimburse Health Insurance Premiums As An Alternative To A Traditional Group Health Plan (Subject...

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Many employers have contacted us over the years asking whether they may offer an “employer–payment plan” rather than offer a traditional group health insurance plan. An employer-payment plan is a type of account-based plan...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Coming to Market: Final Rules Issued for Individual Coverage HRAs

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The U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services have issued final regulations allowing employers to establish health reimbursement arrangements and certain other types of reimbursement plans...more

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