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EBSA Plans To Include Health Care Reform Compliance In Health Plan Audits...
Insurance companies administering certain self-insurance arrangements for employers or certain other entities may qualify as exempt from the information reporting obligations imposed under Internal...
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HHS Chides Insurer For “Excessive” Premium Increases After Affordable Care...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking to publicly shame Everence Insurance of Pennsylvania for charging small businesses what HHS claims are “unreasonably high” premium...
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Incentives To Get Employee Into Wellness Education Requires Legal Risk...
Employers and health plans hoping to leverage the cost containment and other benefits of effective wellness programs may find helpful insights from a new Healthy Cal report about The Network for a...
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EBSA Releases Collection of New M-1 and Other Guidance Impacting Multiple...
Multiple and multi-employer health and other welfare plans are subject to special Form M-1 and other reporting and disclosure and other requirements under Federal law as amended by the Patient...
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CMS Final Medicare Rule Imposes Many Conditions On Access To Medicare Claims...
The Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) says disclosures of certain Medicare provider and supplier claims performance data scheduled to begin in January will empower employers, health...
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Group Health Plans & Insurer To Get More Time To Meet Affordable Care Act...
Group health plans and insurers, their sponsors, fiduciaries, administrators and other services providers are getting more time to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s new Summary of Benefits and...
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Coping With Health Care Reform: 2012 Health Plan Update Workshop July 24,...
Coping With Health Care Reform: 2012 Health Plan Update A Solutions Law Press HR & Benefits Workshop July 24, 2012 10:30 A.M.-Noon Eastern | 11:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M. Central | 9:30 A.M-11:00 A.M....
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Supreme Court Decision Puts Health Plans Under Fire To Complete ACA-Required...
SBCs Required By 1st Day Of 1st Enrollment Period Beginning After September 22, 2012 Health Plan-U Coping With Health Care Reform Workshop Series Provide Timely Updates Beginning July 24 The June 28,...
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12 Steps Every Employer With A Health Plan Should Do Now To Manage 2012-14...
August 1 marked the effective date of yet another Affordable Care Act mandate: the controversial contraceptive coverage and other women’s health preventive coverage benefits mandates. Although many...
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Employers & Plan Fiduciaries Reminded To Confirm Credentials & Bonding For...
Businesses sponsoring employee benefit plans and officers, directors, employees and others acting as fiduciaries with respect to these employee benefit plans should take steps to confirm that all of...
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OCR Plans To Survey Health Plans, Other Covered Entities Hit With HIPAA...
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) wants to ask the 115 health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers (covered entities) that OCR...
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Insured “Expatriate Plans” Get Temporary Reprieve From Affordable Care Act...
“Expatriate health plans” within the meaning of the “FAQS About Affordable Care Act Implementation (Part XIII)”(the “Expat FAQ”) are not required to comply the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements...
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Test Your Health Care Reform Knowledge On 3rd Anniversary of Reform Passage
March 21, 2013 is the 3rd Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With the 2014 rollout of the next round of reforms approaching, the Kaiser Family Foundation invites you to take its latest...
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Health Care Transparency Effectiveness & Value Depends On Data Quality,...
AHCJ Website 2012 CMS Hospital Inspection Deficiency Reports & Other Transparency Data Tool Requiring Management For Proper Use The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) updated its...
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Administration Proposes Expanding Eligibility, Simplifying Small Employer...
The Obama Administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 Revenue Proposals include a proposal to expand the group of employers eligible for the Small Employer Health Care Tax Credit (Health Credit) enacted as part...
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Justice Department Charges Employer, Pension Plan With Violating USERRA...
The Justice Department’s announcement today of its filing of a lawsuit charging County Employees’ and Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Cook County (Cook Pension Plan) and Cook County with...
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Study Finds Down Economy, Not Health Care Reform Accounts For Slower Health...
Bad economic times, and not health care reform, account for the record slowdown in U.S. health care spending, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation study, Assessing the Effects of the Economy on...
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Updated Kaiser Family Foundation Tool May Help Project Which Employees Will...
Employers, health insurers, health plan administrators and brokers and individuals wanting help projecting when employees or other individuals are likely to qualify for subsidies for enrolling in the...
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Beware: Not All Products Marketed As “Fixed Indemnity Coverage” Products Are...
Verify Character and Implications of Proposed Features and Products Alone & In Conjunction With Overall Benefit Design To Avoid Unexpected Exposures As employer and other plan sponsors, insurers,...
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Final Regulations Update HIPAA Health Plan Wellness Program Rules
Register Now For 6/4 Solutions Law Press, Inc. Virtual Briefing Employer, union and sponsors of employment-based group health plans that include health risk assessment (HRA) or other wellness plan...
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