Obamacare Provision Requiring Businesses to Provide Health Insurance Delayed Until 2015
The IRS has announced its next steps regarding the Employer Shared Responsibility Payments (the “ESRPs”), which are the ACA penalties assessable to “Applicable Large Employers” for failing to provide affordable health care...more
Action Item: Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the premium tax subsidy regime of the Affordable Care Act is of critical importance to individuals and employers alike regarding the availability of federal tax...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an IRS regulation authorizing tax subsidies for state health care exchanges established and run by the federal government. In King v. Burwell, the Court held that the language of the...more
On June 25, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in King v. Burwell, ruling that Section 36B of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) authorizes insurance exchanges run by the federal government...more
While employers sometimes view the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility (or “pay-or-play”) rules in isolation, they don’t operate that way. Instead, they exist side-by-side with other provisions of the Act. In...more
The core policy goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”)—on which there is near universal consensus—are threefold: expand health care coverage; increase the quality of medical outcomes, and reduce...more
In early January, the Internal Revenue Service published proposed regulations on “Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage.” These regulations incorporate the provisions of many previous Notices with...more