Chris Allesse
The IRS has taken a hard position on employer payment plans under the ACA, and now the time is up for small employers to comply. An employer payment plan generally consists of an employer agreeing to pay or reimburse an employee’s premiums (on either a pre-tax or after-tax basis) for an individual health insurance ...
The IRS has taken a hard position on employer payment plans under the ACA, and now the time is up for small employers to comply. An employer payment plan generally consists of an employer agreeing to pay or reimburse an employee’s premiums (on either a pre-tax or after-tax basis) for an individual health insurance ...
Jamie Scott
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that states must permit and recognize same-sex marriages, employers that have previously provided for domestic partner benefits may want to address whether those benefits should be continued. Factors to be considered include:
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Employers that have in the past only provided same-sex ...
Lyndsey R. Barnett
It isn’t that often that the U.S. Supreme Court hears benefit issues and even more rare to have two highly-anticipated opinions impacting benefit plans be released in the same week. On June 26th, just one day after the Supreme Court upheld the ACA subsidies, the Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional ...
It isn’t that often that the U.S. Supreme Court hears benefit issues and even more rare to have two highly-anticipated opinions impacting benefit plans be released in the same week. On June 26th, just one day after the Supreme Court upheld the ACA subsidies, the Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional ...
Last time, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the argument that the penalty for violating the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act was permissible within Congress’s power to tax, even though it certainly hadn’t been represented as such when its supporters were pitching the ACA to the public. Now, instead of ...
Lyndsey R. Barnett
I LOVE Uber! I think it is the best thing since the creation of the dishwasher (because really isn’t the dishwasher better than sliced bread?). So when I saw this article in Forbes this week, it immediately made my stomach drop.
In most cases, Uber is considerably cheaper than taking a taxi. I was in LA last week and my taxi from ...
I LOVE Uber! I think it is the best thing since the creation of the dishwasher (because really isn’t the dishwasher better than sliced bread?). So when I saw this article in Forbes this week, it immediately made my stomach drop.
In most cases, Uber is considerably cheaper than taking a taxi. I was in LA last week and my taxi from ...
Chris Allesee
A week ago, the DOL, HHS, and IRS issued final regulations regarding the summary of benefits and coverage (“SBC”) a group health plan must provide to participants and beneficiaries describing the benefit options they are eligible to receive. There were few changes from the proposed regulations we previously wrote about ...
A week ago, the DOL, HHS, and IRS issued final regulations regarding the summary of benefits and coverage (“SBC”) a group health plan must provide to participants and beneficiaries describing the benefit options they are eligible to receive. There were few changes from the proposed regulations we previously wrote about ...
Chris Allesee
If you sponsor a self-insured group health plan, make sure you’ve set your calendar alerts for the annual PCORI fee (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute fee) for the 2014 plan year. The fee and the related IRS Form 720 are due no later than July 31st.
If your plan year ended on or before September 30, 2014, the fee is $2.00 ...
If you sponsor a self-insured group health plan, make sure you’ve set your calendar alerts for the annual PCORI fee (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute fee) for the 2014 plan year. The fee and the related IRS Form 720 are due no later than July 31st.
If your plan year ended on or before September 30, 2014, the fee is $2.00 ...
Chris Allesee
As a parent, I have learned the value of providing very specific directions. For example, if I tell my 3-year old to get her “shoes” to go play in the park, she will always grab her favorite snow boots. Technically, she complied with my request, but it clearly wasn’t what I meant. I know that I should have asked her to get her ...
As a parent, I have learned the value of providing very specific directions. For example, if I tell my 3-year old to get her “shoes” to go play in the park, she will always grab her favorite snow boots. Technically, she complied with my request, but it clearly wasn’t what I meant. I know that I should have asked her to get her ...
Lyndsey Barnett
According to the a recent study by the DOL, only 61 % of employee benefit plan audits fully complied with professional auditing standards or had only minor deficiencies under the professional standards. That statistic is rather alarming to me. While employers often see spending money on the plan audit as a necessary evil ...
According to the a recent study by the DOL, only 61 % of employee benefit plan audits fully complied with professional auditing standards or had only minor deficiencies under the professional standards. That statistic is rather alarming to me. While employers often see spending money on the plan audit as a necessary evil ...
Jamie Scott
That is not a question I want to hear from my doctor, because my response would be something like: “Are you #$%@ing kidding me?” But lately some insurers and physicians have been asking whether colonoscopy sedation is medically necessary; raising questions about whether the patient would need to decide between skipping the ...
That is not a question I want to hear from my doctor, because my response would be something like: “Are you #$%@ing kidding me?” But lately some insurers and physicians have been asking whether colonoscopy sedation is medically necessary; raising questions about whether the patient would need to decide between skipping the ...