News & Analysis as of September 21, 2024

Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA)

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC), also known as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute passed in March of 2010. The Act creates a nationwide insurance system and provides federal... more +

Year-End Compliance Checklist for Employee Benefit Plans

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 10/23/2023

As we come to the end of the year, it is a good time for employers with January 1st health plan renewals to review their plan documents and get ready for open enrollment. The following is a checklist that lists some of the...more

Upcoming Compliance Deadlines for Health and Welfare Plans

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/3/2021

Summary - Throughout 2020 and 2021, employers sponsoring health and welfare plans have needed to respond to a myriad of legislative and regulatory changes arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and new health legislation. To...more

Departments Delay Enforcement of Transparency Disclosure Requirements

Fisher Phillips on 9/7/2021

Group health plan sponsors soon will face daunting new disclosure and transparency requirements under multiple laws including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the No Surprises Act (the Act) and the Consolidated Appropriations...more

The Surprises Continue: The Biden Administration Delays Implementation of Certain Provisions of the No Surprises Act and...

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief on 9/3/2021

In a FAQ published on August 20, 2021, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) significantly delayed implementation of statutory requirements on surprise billing...more

New Guidance Delays Some Key CAA and Other Health Benefit Effective Dates

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/24/2021

New regulatory guidance from three federal agencies that enforce private-sector benefits laws will make employers’ daunting 2021 health benefit to-do lists slightly - but only slightly - more manageable heading into 2022....more

HHS Issues Interim Final Rule Implementing Certain Provisions of the No Surprises Act

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/6/2021

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, on July 1, 2021, issued a much-anticipated Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) –...more

You’ve Got Another PCORI Fee Coming!: Congress revives the PCORI fee and filing obligations

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial on 3/5/2020

In the wee hours of December 2019, Congress revived the PCORI fee and filing obligations of employer sponsors of self-insured group health plans. In accordance with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, employer...more

Decision Expected Soon in Ongoing Risk Corridors Litigation

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 6/12/2018

Many provisions of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) have been the subject of litigation over the last decade, with several high-profile Supreme Court cases including: NFIB v. Sebelius, King v. Burwell, and Burwell v. Hobby...more

Congress Engages in Some Holiday Spending on Benefits

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on 1/7/2016

Congress’s recent $1.8 trillion holiday shopping spree (aka The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, which became law on December 18, 2015) included a few employee benefit packages. We recently unwrapped the packages....more

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