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BAS Ready to Administer FSAs with New $500 Carryover Provision

The IRS revised the use-it-or-lose-it rule for health flexible spending accounts to allow employers to amend their plans to allow participants to carry over up to $500 ...
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BAS Prevents Information from Leaving System on Flash Drives

BAS makes security of client data its number one priority. BAS has a policy of not allowing any information to leave its computers via flash drive.
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California Requires Some Individual Plans to Continue for Additional ...

The news has been buzzing with clips of President Obama’s past statements indicating that Americans can keep their health coverage even with the implementation of health ...
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Bike Share Not A Qualified Transportation Expense

Qualified Transportation Plans are offered by employers to assist employees with the cost of commuting to and from work. A qualified transportation plan is a ...
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Question of the Week

  • mroshkoff@basusa.com
  • 07.11.2013
Q.- We offer our employees an HRA plan through which we fund 75% of the deductible for our high deductible health plan. Can an employee have a health savings account and ...
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SPECIAL ALERT- IRS MODIFIES FSA USE-IT-OR-LOSE-IT RULE

  • BAS
  • 01.11.2013
The IRS revised the use-it-or-lose-it component of health flexible spending account plans to allow for the carryover of up to $500 of unused FSA amounts into the next ...
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Another HIPAA Breach Notification

The Unity Point Health System in Iowa must notify 1,800 patients that their records were compromised. An employee of a third party contractor of the Health System had ...
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Another HIPAA Breach Notification

The Unity Point Health System in Iowa must notify 1,800 patients that their records were compromised. An employee of a third party contractor of the Health System had ...
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Additional Time to Buy Health Insurance Before Penalty Imposed

Health care reform requires virtually all Americans to maintain health insurance beginning in 2014 or pay a penalty. The penalty is the greater of
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Contingency Planning Important as Winter Approaches

While the programming behind the health care Exchange website is coming under scrutiny, the government has been able to successfully program consumer-facing websites on ...
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