News & Analysis as of

Internal Revenue Service TRICARE

The United States Internal Revenue Service is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. The IRS is charged with collecting revenue and enforcing the Internal Revenue Code.  
ArentFox Schiff

Investigations Newsletters: Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Anti-Kickback Statute Violations

ArentFox Schiff on

Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Anti-Kickback Statute Violations - On February 28, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the guilty plea of Andrew Maloney, who, along with his clinical laboratory...more

ArentFox Schiff

Business Owner Charged with Fraud Connected to the Paycheck Protection Program

ArentFox Schiff on

Business Owner Charged with Fraud Connected to the Paycheck Protection Program - On June 15, 2020, the owner of several information technology companies was charged in a criminal complaint with bank fraud and for making...more

Burr & Forman

What the HRA is going on with HRAs?

Burr & Forman on

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

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

Agencies Issue Final Regulations Expanding Access to Health Reimbursement Arrangements

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

Epstein Becker & Green

The Proposed Expansion of Health Reimbursement Arrangements: Is This a Game Changer for Employers?

Epstein Becker & Green on

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

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits...

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

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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Reporting for ACA Mandates: Final Forms and Additional Guidance

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The IRS has finalized the 2015 forms and instructions for reporting under the individual and employer mandates and issued additional guidance on these new reporting requirements. The following forms are now available...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Final 2015 Forms 1094-B, 1095-B, 1094-C, 1095-C and Instructions

Balch & Bingham LLP on

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

Franczek P.C.

Employee Benefits Alert - August 2015

Franczek P.C. on

Retirement Plans - IRS Issues Guidance on Benefit Suspension Voting under MPRA - As we have written in prior alerts, the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) permits trustees of financially troubled...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Partial Relief for Employer Payment of Individual Insurance Premiums

Ballard Spahr LLP on

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

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

IRS Clarifies Prior Guidance on Premium Reimbursement Arrangements; Provides Limited Relief

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

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Medical Insurance Premium Reimbursement — A Brief Reprieve for Small Employers

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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Supplemental Excepted Benefits? “It depends.”

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

Ballard Spahr LLP

New Guidance Addresses Individual Shared Responsibility Payments and Premium Tax Credits

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The IRS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued two important pieces of guidance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act regarding the responsibilities imposed on individuals to...more

14 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide