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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 +

What the HRA is going on with HRAs?

Burr & Forman on 7/11/2019

On June 13, the Departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services jointly released final regulations dealing with health reimbursement accounts (“HRAs”). These regulations fulfill the Trump administration’s...more

Agencies Issue Final Regulations Expanding Access to Health Reimbursement Arrangements

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 7/11/2019

On June 13, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury Department) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (collectively, the “Departments”)...more

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

The Affordable Care Act’s Reporting Requirements for Carriers and Employers (Part 16 of 24): Reporting for, and Clearing Up...

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 11/3/2015

In an earlier post, we reported on a troubling development in the draft 2015 instructions for Forms 1094-B and 1095-B which, if adopted, would have required sponsors of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (“HRA”) to issue...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

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

Do Subsidized Health Care Plans Purchased Under the Affordable Care Act Trigger the Anti-Kickback Statute?

Dickinson Wright on 7/11/2014

The advent of federally subsidized private pay health insurance under the Affordable Care Act has the potential to expand the application of the federal anti-kickback statute beyond just Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare. The...more

Healthcare Legal News - July 2014 • Volume 4, Number 2

Dickinson Wright on 7/7/2014

In This Issue: - DO SUBSIDIZED HEALTH CARE PLANS PURCHASED UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT TRIGGER THE ANTI-KICKBACK STATUTE? The advent of federally subsidized private pay health insurance under the Affordable...more

False Claims Act Whistleblower Bounties Exceed $345 Million in Fiscal Year 2013

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/23/2014

The DOJ has released its Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2013 totals for civil settlements and judgments recovered under the federal False Claims Act (“FCA”). To say that the Department had a successful year in prosecuting fraud against...more

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