by Jim Beatrice | July 28, 2014 | Employee Benefits, Health Care Reform, Medicare & Individual, Recommended Articles
Last week U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that subsidies to help pay the insurance premium for individuals in states using the federal exchange, instead of their own, are illegal. Within just two hours a panel of the U.S. Court... by Geralyn Isler | July 2, 2014 | Business Benefit News, Employee Benefits, Health Care Reform, Recommended Articles
Business Benefits’ president, Jim Beatrice, is interviewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Lisa Bernard-Kuhn as they address how Businesses tackle the Obamacare equation. by Jim Beatrice | June 27, 2014 | Health Care Reform, Medicare & Individual, Recommended Articles
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the new secretary of Health and Human Services, announced yesterday that majority of individuals will not need to do anything to renew their health insurance coverage in 2015. However, if the consumer did not give permission to the... by Geralyn Isler | June 4, 2014 | Employee Benefits, Health Care Reform
On October 31, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a non-enforcement policy “until further notice” regarding the HIPAA Health Plan Identifier (“HPID”) requirement that otherwise would have gone into effect November... by Geralyn Isler | May 19, 2014 | Employee Benefits, Health Care Reform
On March 5, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final regulations on the reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which are designed to enforce the individual and employer mandates. Beginning 2016, for the prior calendar year,...