The Next (Big) Affordable Care Act Argument--and How it Impacts Employers and...
By Alden J. Bianchi In a July 7 article entitled Brawling Over HealthCare Moves to Rules on Exchanges, The New York Times reported on a brewing challenge to tax credit provisions of the Affordable Care...
View ArticleCompliance with the Affordable Care Act in the Wake of NFIB v. Sebelius: The...
By Alden J. Bianchi While the political elites and the chattering classes posture for advantage in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act, Stand-Alone Health Reimbursement Accounts, and the...
By Alden J. Bianchi Employers are increasingly looking to consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) in an effort to control health insurance costs. CDHPs generally combine a high-deductible health plan...
View ArticleFood Fight in 36B--The Looming Challenge to the Affordable Care Act's Premium...
By Alden J. Bianchi In a recent blog-post, which you can read here, I described a claim by opponents of the Affordable Care Act to the effect that low-income individuals living in states that fail to...
View ArticleHHS Clarifies Temporary Enforcement Safe Harbor for Contraceptive Services...
By Alden J. Bianchi The Affordable Care Act’s requirements relating to first dollar coverage of preventive has hit something of a snag on the subject to coverage of contraceptive services on the part...
View ArticleIRS Issues Rules on "Full-time Employees" and 90-day Waiting Period...
By Alden J. Bianchi In a much anticipated move, the IRS recently issued a set of important proposals aimed at helping employers identify their full-time employees for purposes the Affordable Care Act’s...
View ArticleHHS Issues Comprehensive "Essential Health Benefits" Proposed Regulations
Commencing in 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Act) requires that health insurance coverage provided in the individual and small group markets, including coverage offered through...
View ArticleMassachusetts Governor Proposes Elimination of Fair Share Contribution...
By Patricia A. Moran On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, the Patrick administration proposed legislation that will repeal the Massachusetts Fair Share Law effective June 30, 2013. In effect since 2006, the...
View Article"Affordability" under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The core policy goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—on which there is near universal consensus—are threefold: expand health care coverage; increase the quality of medical outcomes,...
View ArticleStaffing Industry Compliance with the Employer Shared Responsibility (aka...
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”), the federal government, state governments, insurers, employers, and individuals all share responsibility to make affordable health...
View ArticleEEOC Signals Increased Focus on Employer-Sponsored Wellness Programs
By Martha J. Zackin A majority of US employers offer some sort of wellness program designed to reduce the cost of health insurance and healthcare costs, and to improve the health and well-being of...
View ArticleTemporary and Contract Workers:
By Alden J. Bianchi The Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility rules will require large employers (50 or more full-time and full-time equivalent employees) to make an offer of minimum...
View ArticleObama Administration Announces a One-Year Delay in the Enforcement of the...
By Alden J. Bianchi In a surprise announcement posted yesterday to the White’s House website, the Obama Administration announced a one-year delay (to January 1, 2105) in the enforcement of the employer...
View ArticleThe Obamacare Delays and the Massachusetts "Fair Share" Employer Mandate: Now...
By Patricia A. Moran As we reported in our post earlier today, the Obama administration has decided to delay implementation of the “employer shared responsibility” mandate for in order to afford...
View ArticleObama Administration Delays Enforcement of the ACA Employer Shared...
By Alden J. Bianchi In a move that took many by surprise, the Obama Administration on July 3 announced a one-year delay (to January 1, 2015 from January 1, 2014) in the enforcement of the employer...
View ArticleInvitation to The Affordable Care Act: What Every Business Needs to Know
The delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility rules, while welcome by employers, has triggered a deluge of questions. What should employers do now? Is it...
View ArticleMassachusetts Fair Share Law and HIRD Form Requirements Repealed
By Patricia A. Moran Effective July 1, 2013, the Massachusetts “Fair Share” Law has been repealed as part of the Commonwealth’s 2014 fiscal year budget package. The Fair Share Law, in effect since...
View ArticlePCORI Fee Payment and Filing Deadline is July 31, 2013
By Patricia A. Moran The Affordable Care Act has established a new annual fee, imposed on group health plans, which will be used to fund the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The amount of...
View ArticleCafeteria Plans, the Affordable Care Act, and Continued Compliance with the...
Established as part of the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform law, the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector served as a model for the Affordable Care Act’s American Health Benefit Exchanges,...
View ArticleMassachusetts Private Health Care Exchange Announced
In a client advisory issued yesterday, we explain how the rules governing insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act affect compliance with the Massachusetts free-rider surcharge....
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