As a resource, the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck prepares a chart identifying the annual adjustments to the dollar limitations that impact employee benefits.
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Most companies are genuinely concerned about their employees’ health and well-being. In an effort to incentivize employees to share in that concern, many companies have instituted wellness programs. Significantly, due to a...more
Periodically, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation adjust for cost-of-living increases certain limitations that impact employee benefit plans. These...more
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) restricts employers from requesting or requiring employees to disclose genetic information. A narrow exception allows an employee to voluntarily accept health services...more
The Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation periodically adjust for cost-of-living increases certain limitations that impact employee benefit plans. These...more
The increased use of electronic medical records and breaches of that data by computer hackers or handling errors by insurers and providers has increased medical identity theft in recent years. This increase reemphasizes the...more
Due to changes in state marijuana laws, including medical and recreational use, health plan administrators are wondering whether they may be required to cover medical marijuana or whether a plan can or should exclude it from...more
The Mental Health Parity rules require group health plans that offer mental health and substance use disorder benefits to cover those benefits on terms that are no more restrictive than those applied to comparable medical and...more
Health care reform imposed on all health plans a Transitional Reinsurance Fee (TRF) for three years— 2014 through 2016. For 2015 and 2016, there is an exemption from the TRF program for self-insured plans that self-administer...more
The Trust's business associates who perform electronic transactions on its behalf are required to follow certain HIPAA standards and operating rules. A recently published proposed rule introduces a new requirement to submit...more