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Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) considers Regulations to Promote Health Equity

DFS has developed a draft pre-proposal notice regarding proposed amendments to 11 NYCRR 52 (Insurance Regulation 62) which, if adopted, would amend the minimum standards for form, content, and sale of health insurance in New...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Ontario Consultation on Regulating Life & Health Managing General Agents Launched

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On July 26, 2024, the Ontario Ministry of Finance launched a consultation on proposed amendments to the Insurance Act that would create a regulatory framework for life and health managing general agents (L&H MGAs) and those...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

NY Governor’s budget includes proposal to expand Life Insurance Company Guaranty Corporation to health insurance

New York Senate Bill 4007 and Assembly Bill 3007, which represent Governor Kathy Hochul’s state budget proposal, include provisions to amend Article 77 of the New York Insurance Law, the Life Insurance Company Guaranty...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Updated Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act Regulations Issued

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On January 6, 2023, the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (“PFML)” revised regulations were issued. These changes center around an employer’s responsibility to maintain health insurance benefits for employees...more

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Important Changes to Massachusetts Paid Family Medical Leave Law Go Into Effect January 1, 2023

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Several important updates to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (“PFML”) go into effect on January 1, 2023. Background on the PFML - Beginning in 2021, the PFML began providing paid family and medical...more

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Important and Time-Sensitive Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Updates; Proposed Amendments to PFML Regulations; Looking...

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Important updates to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (“MA PFML”) are going into effect January 1, 2023. Employers should take steps now to ensure that their payroll systems reflect the revised contribution...more

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Proposed Changes to Massachusetts Paid Family & Medical Leave Regulations

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The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave has proposed changes to the regulations governing the state’s paid family and medical leave program. The proposed changes are intended to clarify the requirements...more

McDermott Will & Emery

A Renewed Focus on Telehealth in New Jersey

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New Jersey governing boards for dentistry, counseling, respiratory care and occupational therapy have introduced regulations to address licensure requirements for telehealth encounters, consistent with previous regulations...more

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Trump Administration Approves Georgia’s Limited Expansion of Medicaid and Work Requiremen

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CMS approved Georgia’s Section 1115 demonstration project to partially expand Medicaid coverage for adults not otherwise eligible for Medicaid coverage with incomes up to 95 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL)—short of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Arkansas and Kentucky Halt Medicaid Work Requirements

On April 10, 2019, the Department of Justice filed notices appealing two District Court rulings that struck down Medicaid work requirements in both Kentucky and Arkansas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...more

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Proposed changes to OHIP+ Program

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The OHIP+ program, also known as Children and Youth Pharmacare program, was implemented on January 1, 2018 by the Province of Ontario to provide free prescription drug coverage for all children and youth 24 years of age or...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Wisconsin Releases Draft Waiver Amendment Proposing New Eligibility Requirements

On April 19, 2017, Wisconsin released for public comment a proposed amendment to its BadgerCare Reform Section 1115 demonstration. BadgerCare Reform currently provides coverage to approximately 150,000 childless adults ages...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

CMS Proposes Affordable Care Act Exchange, Individual, and Small Group Insurance Market Changes

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Not relying on Congress to take action on the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has proposed new regulations intended to attract health insurance issuers back into ACA health...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Trustee Alert – Proposed GINA Amendment & Wellness Programs

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

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - November 2015

Montana receives approval to expand Medicaid beginning 2016; California’s $6.2 billion Medicaid waiver receives pre-approval; and HHS proposes broadening circumstances under which states receive enhanced federal matching...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Thirteen Years of the Same Rules and Now Big Proposed Changes to the Regulation of Medicaid Managed Care Plans

On May 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a newly proposed rule that would change the way the agency regulates Medicaid managed care plans, the first regulation of its kind since 2002. ...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Proposed Exemption of Limited Wraparound Coverage from Health Insurance Market Standards

On December 19, 2014, various federal agencies issued proposed regulations (“Proposed Regulations”) to amend the definition of “excepted benefits” to include certain limited wraparound health insurance coverage. “Excepted...more

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