The Affordable Care Act (ACA) establishes requirements for group health plans. Among these is the requirement for non-grandfathered group health plans to offer preventive care with no cost sharing. The…
6.02.2019
Annette Bechtold
Compliance Confidence
3 min read
ACA’s Contraceptive Mandate No Longer Enforceable for Certain Employers
The long-standing debate on the constitutionality of the individual mandate spans from 2012 through today. Our previous articles provide background on the most current lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the…
4.19.2019
Compliance Confidence
10 min read
States Receive First Decision in Lawsuit Challenging New Association Health Plan Rule
The Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Final Rule creates an additional method for forming association health plans (AHPs). On the heels of the Final Rule, eleven states and the District of…
4.11.2019
Employers….you can stop holding your breath. The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) promises to update the employer rules on overtime pay to certain employees.
Employee benefits compliance is ever-changing with the introduction of new legislation and regulations. Join us for our quarterly update on recent legislative and regulatory proposals and changes.
3.20.2019
In July of 2018, the Governor signed the MA Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) into law making MA the seventh state to implement state-mandated paid family and medical leave…
3.07.2019
We cannot watch TV without a constant barrage of ads for prescription drugs. The ads depict thriving people able to overcome their ailment by taking some medication. The communication also…
2.11.2019
With a new year upon us, employers are looking to strategize and plan the compliance needs of the year. Yet, with so much uncertainty around the Affordable Care Act (ACA),…
1.23.2019
Compliance Confidence
3 min read
Is the New Association Health Plan (AHP) Rule Providing New Opportunities for Employers?
Far from being commonplace, we have seen some movement and activity on the Association Health Plans (AHP) front. Organizations, states, regulators, and consumers have been trying to understand the impact…
1.14.2019
Thursday, January 3, marks the date when our 116th Congress takes office. With more than 100 new faces in Congress, a new Democratic Party majority in the House, and a…
1.03.2019
On Friday, December 14, 2018, a federal judge in the Texas US District Court reached a final decision declaring the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional due to the elimination…
12.18.2018