President Trump signed an executive order on June 24, 2019 directing federal agencies to increase healthcare price and quality transparency. The order directs the Departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services to issue guidance and propose regulations...
On June 13, the U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services issued a final rule allowing employees to use the dollars in employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs, also called Health Reimbursement Accounts) to purchase...
CMS will once again allow small employers and individual health plans an extension of transitional (grand-mothered) coverage. Transitional relief allows employers to continue to use their health plans that don’t meet requirements of the Affordable Care Act. If...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released rules requiring hospitals to post standard charges online. Previous law required that hospitals make a list of standard charges uniform and public. The guidelines have been updated, effective January 1,...
This past December, District Judge Reed O’Conner released his ruling in the case Texas v. United States. The case questioned the constitutionality of the ACA’s individual mandate after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced the individual mandate...
Once again (in Notice 2018-94) the IRS has extended the deadline for furnishing Forms 1095-B and 1095-C to individuals from January 31 to March 4, 2019. The notice does not extend the due date for filing Forms 1094-B and 1094-C (and accompanying Form 1095s)...
