The Affordable Care Act included a provision requiring certain employers to automatically enroll new full-time employees in health coverage. Automatic enrollment had not yet become effective under health care reform.
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed into law on November 2, 2015, repeals the automatic enrollment provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Employers with more than 200 employees are no longer required to automatically enroll full-time equivalent employees into a qualifying health plan.
Large employers will be happy about this change to health care reform, as there was little guidance on how to enroll employees and many employers faced increased costs with automatic enrollments.