With the signing of the Budget Act of 2015, Congress included a repeal of the Automatic Enrollment provision of the Affordable Care Act. The Automatic Enrollment provision required employers with 200 full-time employees or more to automatically enroll new...
Lawmakers are looking to delay several parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would increase taxes, within the new Ominius Budget deal. Included in this agreement is the delay of the Cadillac Tax. This agreement was passed and later signed by...
Last week both the Senate and the House of Representatives unanimously decided upon a bill to repeal the definition of a small employer in the Affordable Care Act. The definition of a small employer is currently a state decision where the number of employees...
The Affordable Care Act’s high-cost plan tax (HCPT), called the “Cadillac plan” tax, will likely affect employer decisions about their health benefits in the future. This new tax takes effect in 2018 and proposed rules have been released by the IRS...
The ACA established a Transitional Reinsurance Program to help stabilize premiums for coverage in the individual market during the years 2014 through 2016. The statute requires all fully insured and self-insured group health plans to make contributions...
Federal Law requires health insurance carriers and self-funded employers to report health insurance coverage to the IRS using members' (including dependents) Social Security numbers (SSNs). For many years, health insurance carriers did not always require dependent...
