In a widely anticipated and welcome move, the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Treasury, and Labor (“DOL”) (collectively, the “Departments”), sought an abeyance of a lawsuit challenging the Mental Health...more
On April 29, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) released a final regulation (the “Final Rule”) that rescinded the Trump Administration rule that expanded the availability of association health plans (“AHPs”) (“Trump DOL...more
On December 19, 2023, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a proposed rule rescinding a Trump Administration rule that expanded the availability of association health plans (“AHPs”) (the “Proposed Rule”)....more
On July 25, 2023, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (“Tri-Agencies”) issued sweeping new guidance on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”), including a Proposed Rule, a...more
On July 7, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (the “Tri-Agencies”) published a long-anticipated proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) that...more
The Paul Wellstone and Peter Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (“MHPAEA”) has increasingly been the focus of government enforcement activity and private plaintiff litigation. In its 2022 Report to...more
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On December 30, 2021, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) released Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2021-03 (“FAB 2021-03”). FAB 2021-03 announces the DOL’s temporary enforcement policy for group health plan service...more
On July 1, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management, Department of the Treasury, Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Department of Labor (“DOL”) (collectively, the “Departments”), released the interim final...more
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008’s (“MHPAEA”) provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”) became effective February 10, 2021 and added a requirement for group health plans and...more
On February 17th, we posted an alert that the COVID-19 extensions that the DOL and IRS had issued last year as part of their “Joint Notice” were set to expire at midnight on February 28th. For weeks, we have been asking DOL...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to overwhelm the country last spring, the Departments of Labor (“DOL”) and Treasury (together, the “Departments”) became concerned that the disruption caused by the pandemic would create...more