Last year the IRS provided guidance that permitted telehealth services to be offered under high-deductible health plans on a pre-deductible basis. Plan sponsors were permitted to amend their plan documents so participants could receive telehealth services at no cost or at a cost less than the normal deductible. This meant those individuals ...
As discussed in our prior blog post, the No Surprises Act requires non-grandfathered group health plans offering coverage to disclose information regarding in-and out-of-network rates for certain covered items and services and prescription drugs in machine-readable files on a publicly available website. The machine-readable file ...
If you are a large employer required to provide health plan coverage to avoid the employer mandate shared responsibility penalties, it is prudent to reevaluate your health plan contribution structure each year before open enrollment to ensure that your plan is still “affordable.” Since the passage of the ACA, it is no longer a strategy to set ...
Last week Delta airlines announced it was going to begin charging employees enrolled in its health plan an extra $200 per month if they were not fully vaccinated. Since that story made the news, we have received numerous inquiries from clients as to whether they could also charge employees more to be in their health plan. The simple answer is yes, but ...