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Form 720 › Health Plan Sponsors

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Form 720 is a United States Internal Revenue Service form that is typically submitted quarterly. Businesses engaged in the sale of particular types of products must use the form to report the collection of excise taxes. The Affordable Care Act made some revisions to Form 720 which relate to the payment of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fees. The revisions require sponsors of self-funded insurance plans to submit the form yearly to report and pay PCORI fees. less -

Compliance Alert: Reminder PCORI Fees Due By July 31, 2022

Woodruff Sawyer on 5/26/2022

Employers that sponsor self-insured group health plans, including health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) should keep in mind the upcoming July 31, 2022 deadline for paying fees that fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes...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

PCORI Fee Resurrected

Burr & Forman on 1/8/2020

In the summer of 2019, I wrote a short blog on the death of the PCORI fee — Ding, Dong, the PCORI Fee is Dead!. When enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act, the fee was set to expire with plan/policy years ending after...more

Ding, Dong, the PCORI Fee is Dead!

Burr & Forman on 7/8/2019

Insurance carriers and employer sponsors of health plans were not exactly thrilled with the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. You might say, the Affordable Care Act was viewed as the “wicked witch.” Although the...more

Revised IRS Form 720, Updated For Reporting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Fees, Now Available: Due By July...

Perkins Coie on 6/13/2013

The Affordable Care Act (the ACA) established the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (the Institute) in order to provide comparative clinical effectiveness research data so that patients, health care providers,...more

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