Affordable Care Act, Employer Group Health Plans, Health Insurance Exchanges

Podcast: Health Reimbursement Arrangements

Williams Mullen on 4/26/2019

[co-author: Claire Pollock, Paralegal] In this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Brydon DeWitt and Claire Pollock discuss proposed health reimbursement arrangement regulations that may provide welcome relief...more

2017 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health & Welfare

Snell & Wilmer on 10/18/2017

As 2017 comes to an end, we are pleased to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we are presenting our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. This Part 1 will cover...more

Issue 108: HHS Moves Ahead In Face of ACA Uncertainty

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/19/2017

This is the one hundred and eighth issue in our series of alerts for employers on selected topics on health care reform. This series of Health Care Reform Management Alerts is designed to provide an in-depth analysis of...more

Trump administration issues proposed health insurance market stabilization rule: Will it be enough to stabilize exchange...

Hogan Lovells on 2/21/2017

On 15 February 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a step toward addressing concerns about the stability of the individual and small group health insurance markets by proposing a modicum of...more

The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - December 2016

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/21/2016

This month Richard Zall, Chair of Proskauer's Health Care Department, explores developments likely to occur with respect to the Affordable Care Act as a result of the new administration. In our Rulings, Filings and...more

Affordable Care Act: Understanding Employer Notices From the Marketplaces

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/23/2016

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established Health Insurance Marketplaces (also called Exchanges) where individuals can shop and enroll in health coverage. Individuals who meet certain criteria are eligible for premium...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 10/20/2015

Bicameral Bill Introduced to Provide HHS Authority to Reject Proposed Insurance Rates - Before Congress left for its Columbus Day recess, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Health...more

The Affordable Care Act’s Reporting Requirements for Carriers and Employers (Part 6 of 24): Reporting Group Health Plan Opt-Out...

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 8/25/2015

Under a common strategy for controlling group health care plan costs, employers sometimes adopt arrangements under which an employee is offered cash as an incentive to waive coverage. These arrangements are colloquially...more

Employee Health Care Plans: Tips for Navigating the Affordable Care Act Requirements

Baker Donelson on 8/7/2015

The United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (the "Act") in a recent decision involving the use of the insurance exchanges. Employers are now certain that they must deal with the requirements of the Act...more

Supreme Court Denies Significant Challenge to Affordable Care Act: Employers Should Continue to Follow the Act as Currently...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 7/13/2015

On June 25, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held in King v. Burwell that individual taxpayers who enroll in health plans through the federal government's health insurance exchange can be eligible for federal tax credits under...more

Business As Usual: Supreme Court Upholds ACA Subsidies

Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog on 7/6/2015

The United States Supreme Court recently held in King v. Burwell that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits individuals to receive health insurance premium subsidies through federally-facilitated exchanges (in addition to...more

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Premium Subsidies on Federally Run Health Insurance Exchanges

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/6/2015

On June 25, 2015, in a 6-3 majority opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the availability of premium subsidies for health coverage purchased on Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges, regardless of whether...more

Supreme Court Rejects Latest Challenge to Affordable Care Act: What Are Employers' Obligations Going Forward?

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/29/2015

On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld one of the main pillars of the Affordable Care Act (ACA): the tax credits that allow millions of Americans to afford health care insurance on the public...more

US Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision Upholding Current ACA Structure

Morgan Lewis on 6/26/2015

Now is the time for employers to focus on next steps. Yesterday, the US Supreme Court, in a 6–3 decision, held that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations issued in 2012 under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...more

Supreme Court Upholds ACA Subsidies on Federal Exchanges: McGuireWoods Healthcare Reform Guide: Installment No. 51

McGuireWoods LLP on 6/26/2015

This is the 51st in a series of WorkCite articles concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its companion statute, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (referred to collectively as the...more

Supreme Court Decides King v. Burwell

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/26/2015

On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States decided King v. Burwell, No. 14-114, holding that tax credits authorized under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are available to individuals who purchase...more

United States Supreme Court Upholds the Affordable Care Act Subsidies

Cole Schotz on 6/26/2015

As we previously reported, one of the greatest challenges to the Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or “Act”) came in King v. Burwell, otherwise known as the Obamacare subsidy lawsuit, where the plaintiffs challenged the ACA...more

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Premium Tax Subsidies

Blank Rome LLP on 6/26/2015

Action Item: Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the premium tax subsidy regime of the Affordable Care Act is of critical importance to individuals and employers alike regarding the availability of federal tax...more

The skinny on narrow networks

McAfee & Taft on 6/24/2015

The insurance exchanges created under Affordable Care Act have facilitated increased competition. Old version managed care models implemented cost-savings measures like pre-authorizations for medical care, hospital length of...more

Agencies Clarify Cost-Sharing Limits Under the Affordable Care Act

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/11/2015

The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments) have issued a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) clarifying the limitations on cost sharing under...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - March 2015 #4

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/25/2015

This week, Alaska’s Governor introduced Medicaid expansion bills in both the House and Senate after failing to get approval in his budget. Colorado determined that non-ACA-compliant plans cannot be sold in 2016, a year ahead...more

Monthly Benefits Alert - February 2015

Franczek P.C. on 3/9/2015

Health & Wellness Plans - Anthem Data Breach Requires Plan Sponsor Attention - On January 29, 2015, Anthem Inc., one of the largest managed health care companies in the country, disclosed that the sensitive...more

Has the Supreme Court Given Advance Notice How It Will Decide King v. Burwell?

Nossaman LLP on 3/5/2015

On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, the Supreme Court will hear argument in King v. Burwell, the most publicized case in some time. Most readers are aware that the issue is whether certain tax subsidies essential to the proper...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - February 2015 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/11/2015

HHS ramps up for the final week of open enrollment. Families buying into CHIP in Pennsylvania are granted tax relief, and though Medicaid expansion efforts seem to have hit a wall in Tennessee and Wyoming, Arkansas assures...more

Agencies Green Light Pilot Program to Allow Limited Wrap-Around Coverage for Health Insurance Policies Purchased on an Exchange

Franczek P.C. on 1/27/2015

Under proposed rules recently issued by the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and HHS, employers may participate in a pilot program where they offer certain wraparound coverage as an “excepted benefit” to part-time employees,...more

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