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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 +

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The Proposed Expansion of Health Reimbursement Arrangements: Is This a Game Changer for Employers?

Epstein Becker & Green on 1/10/2019

On October 22, 2018, in perhaps the most significant guidance resulting from President Trump’s 2017 Executive Order 13813, “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States” (“2017 Executive Order”), the...more

Texas Court Enjoins Enforcement of Regulation that Would Forbid Discrimination in Healthcare on the Basis of Gender Identity and...

FordHarrison on 1/19/2017

As LGBTQ rights have taken center stage in political and social issues, FordHarrison has been following ground-breaking litigation related to LGBTQ rights and providing updates. In the latest decision, a federal judge in...more

Reporting for ACA Mandates: Final Forms and Additional Guidance

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/1/2015

The IRS has finalized the 2015 forms and instructions for reporting under the individual and employer mandates and issued additional guidance on these new reporting requirements. The following forms are now available...more

Final 2015 Forms 1094-B, 1095-B, 1094-C, 1095-C and Instructions

Balch & Bingham LLP on 9/21/2015

On September 16, 2015, the IRS finalized these ACA coverage reporting Forms and Instructions... We report here, with minimal analysis, changes that we recognized on first comparison to the 2015 Draft Forms and Instructions....more

Employee Benefits Alert - August 2015

Franczek P.C. on 9/9/2015

Retirement Plans - IRS Issues Guidance on Benefit Suspension Voting under MPRA - As we have written in prior alerts, the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) permits trustees of financially troubled...more

Partial Relief for Employer Payment of Individual Insurance Premiums

Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/26/2015

In a recent notice, the Internal Revenue Service has tempered prior guidance that closed the door on employer arrangements for paying the cost of individual health insurance for employees. The IRS still views these premium...more

IRS Clarifies Prior Guidance on Premium Reimbursement Arrangements; Provides Limited Relief

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 2/24/2015

Continuing its focus on so-called “premium reimbursement” or “employer payment plans”, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released IRS Notice 2015-17 on February 18, 2015. In this Notice, which was previewed and approved by...more

Medical Insurance Premium Reimbursement — A Brief Reprieve for Small Employers

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 2/23/2015

Some employers – particularly smaller ones – have assisted their employees to obtain health insurance by reimbursing them for the cost of insurance they purchase in the individual market. Does this practice satisfy the...more

Supplemental Excepted Benefits? “It depends.”

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 2/20/2015

Last week, HHS, along with the Department of Labor and the Treasury, provided long overdue guidance regarding the third category of supplemental “excepted benefits” as defined by Section 2791 of the Public Health Services...more

Employing Veterans May Help Avoid the ACA’s Employer Mandate

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/14/2015

The new Republican Congress began its session with an attempt to narrow the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate by exempting certain veterans and their families from counting toward the number of employees at small...more

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