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Articles Discussing Health Care Reform.

Top Trends to Look For in Healthcare in 2020

Posted: February 18, 2020 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

Healthcare consumers continue to pay more and more toward their out-of-pocket healthcare costs, driving a shift away from volume-based compensation models toward outcomes-based payment arrangements. By all accounts, meaningful consumerism in the healthcare market is rapidly emerging.

Employers in Union-Related Group Health Plans Must Still Comply with ACA Reporting Requirements

Posted: December 15, 2019 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

Employers who provide health benefits to their union workforce through a multiemployer group health plan must satisfy all the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting requirements regarding their union employees.

HHS Proposed Regulations Remove Protections from the Affordable Care Act for Transgender Patients

Posted: July 11, 2019 | Littler Category: Benefits - ACA

On May 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new proposed regulations interpreting Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which contains the ACA’s anti-discrimination provisions.1 These proposed regulations substantially change Obama-era HHS regulations interpreting Section 1557 to prohibit discrimination in certain health programs based on gender identity, gender expression, and transgender status. (Littler’s previous coverage of Section 1557 is available here.)

As The ACA Landscape Shifts Again, What’s an Employer to Do?

Posted: February 26, 2019 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

As employers and their third-party administrators begin to wrap-up their Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) reporting for the 2018 tax year, we’ve started to receive questions about what comes next. As we discussed here, with the implementation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”), the ACA’s “individual mandate” effectively lost its teeth—while the ACA still contains a requirement that individuals obtain health insurance coverage, the Act reduced the penalty for not doing so to $0.

ACA Still in Effect, Despite New Federal Court Ruling

Posted: December 17, 2018 | Littler Category: Benefits - ACA

On December 14, 2018, a Texas federal court declared the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional. Despite this broad holding (and clickbait headlines), employers should not expect to see any significant changes to the ACA in the near future.

Ho! Ho! Ho! Where Did It Go?

Posted: December 16, 2018 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

On December 14, 2018, a federal district judge sitting in Texas ruled that, without the so-called “individual mandate” which requires individual taxpayers to maintain minimum essential coverage, the rest of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended (widely known as the “ACA”) is “INVALID”.

2018 Tax Reform Series: Goodbye to the Individual Mandate

Posted: January 24, 2018 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

This is the seventh article in our series covering various tax and employee benefits-related changes contained in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by the President on December 22, 2017.

Watch out for IRS letters: IRS Begins Enforcing Employer Mandate

Posted: December 7, 2017 | Ford Harrison Category: Benefits - ACA

The IRS has recently begun enforcing the “employer shared responsibility” (ESR) provisions of the Affordable Care Act (the “Act”), which require employers having 50 or more full-time employees (or full-time equivalent employees) to offer health insurance coverage to eligible employees and their dependents. Failure to offer qualifying coverage as required by the Act results in the employer being subject to a penalty, known as the “employer shared responsibility payment” (ESRP), which can be substantial. Notices of ESRPs for 2015 coverage – the first year for which the ESR requirements were effective – are being received by some employers now. The notices are not actual assessments, but the penalty will be assessed if appropriate action is not taken promptly.

Your Not So Kind (or Welcome) Early Holiday Gift from the IRS: Letter 226j

Posted: December 4, 2017 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

On more than one occasion since passing the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), the IRS has given some type of early holiday “gift” to alleviate pending compliance concerns for employers. One of the most significant of these occurred in late December 2015, when the IRS extended the mandated filing periods for Forms 1094/1095, which gave employers more time to comply with the ACA’s new reporting obligations. Employers were still coming to grips with reporting health insurance coverages offered during the 2015 taxable year and the litany of new codes used to determine if the employer had adequately complied with Code Section 4980H’s employer shared responsibility requirements. At that same time, the IRS also communicated that employers would not be penalized for filing incorrect or incomplete Forms 1094/1095 if the forms were actually filed by the extended deadlines and filers could show they “made good faith efforts to comply with the information reporting requirements for 2015.”

Exemption to ACA Contraceptive Mandate Extended to For-Profit Entities and Individuals

Posted: October 13, 2017 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

Under the ACA, employers must provide plans that cover birth control and other preventative health services with no out-of-pocket costs. Certain religious employers with religious objections to providing contraceptive services have been exempt from the requirement. (Accommodations have also been provided to non-profit religious organizations objecting to the rule and expanded to closely held for-profit entities objecting to the mandate on religious grounds, see http://www.benefitslawadvisor.com/2014/07/articles/employee-health-welfare-plans/1007/).

Employer Health Plan Premiums Rose in 2016, But Just Barely

Posted: September 26, 2017 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

Premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage continue to sky rocket, with the average cost of a benchmark plan in the individual market place rising 20% this year. There is very different news for employer-sponsored plans. According to the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2016 annual family premiums rose on average a modest 3% to $18,142 per year, of which workers paid on average $5,277, just barely outpacing the average increase in workers’ wages (2.5%) and inflation (1.1%).

WPI Insider Briefing: After ACA “Repeal and Replace” Effort Fails, What’s Next For Employers on Health Care and Other Workplace Policy Issues?

Posted: August 13, 2017 | Littler Category: Benefits - ACA

Last month began with significant momentum but long odds that Senate Republicans would pass legislation repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the early hours of July 28, GOP efforts came to a screeching halt as a last-ditch “skinny” repeal bill failed, all but ending the seven-year quest to overturn the sweeping health care law.

WPI Insider Briefing: Workplace Policy under the Trump Administration Begins to Take Shape as “Repeal and Replace” of the ACA Faces Crucial Senate Vote

Posted: July 11, 2017 | Littler Category: Benefits - ACA

Five months into President Trump’s term, his administration’s workplace policy is beginning to take shape. From notable developments at the Department of Labor (DOL), to long-awaited nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the administration’s departure from the labor and employment policies of its predecessor – or at least the steps to do so – accelerated in June.

Senate Republicans Release Bill to “Repeal and Replace” the Affordable Care Act

Posted: June 23, 2017 | Littler Category: Benefits - ACA

On June 22, 2017, Senate Republicans released a draft of their legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). After the House narrowly passed its version of ACA overhaul legislation, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), on May 4, 2017, attention shifted to the Senate to craft its own proposal.

The Future of the ACA and Break Time For Nursing Mothers

Posted: May 10, 2017 | Jackson Lewis Category: Benefits - ACA

Among the many changes recently proposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), one that has not yet occurred is a repeal of the requirement that certain employers provide break time for nursing mothers.

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