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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 +

IRS Reduces 2024 Affordability Percentage

Williams Mullen on 9/28/2023

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decreased the Affordable Care Act (ACA) affordability percentage for 2024 to 8.39%. This percentage is used to assess whether an applicable large employer’s (ALE) lowest-premium health plan...more

Digging into the New HRA Regulations Part 4: Excepted Benefit HRAs

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 8/12/2019

New regulations issued by the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (the “Departments”) have expanded the use of health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”), including permitting the use of HRAs to...more

Direct Contracting 101: Collaborations Between Employers and Health Care Providers

Jones Day on 5/17/2018

As employers continue to encounter escalating health care costs, many are exploring the "direct contracting" option, which allows for direct service and pricing negotiations with health care providers. While the direct...more

Potential Implications to the ACA Under the Incoming Republican Administration – Part I: the Insurance Industry

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 1/20/2017

In the uncertain atmosphere surrounding the process of ‘repealing’ and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there are some clues as to what we can expect to come next, at least with regard with the health insurance...more

Further Guidance on ACA Market Reforms

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/29/2015

Following up on the issuance of final regulations on various market reform provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the IRS has issued a notice with Questions and Answers that take a more detailed look at specific ACA...more

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