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Determining Full-Time Employees for Pay-or-Play Penalty

Beginning 2014, certain employers must offer their employees appropriate health coverage or be subject to a tax penalty. See our article dated July 5, 2012. This "pay or ...
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Religious Exemption for Women's Contraceptive Coverage

The Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered health plans to provide coverage for preventive care services without cost-sharing. Some preventive care services ...
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Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit

The Affordable Care Act created a new tax credit that eligible small businesses may use to make it more affordable to provide health insurance to their employees. A ...
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Women's Preventive Care Services Covered under Health Care Reform

The Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered health plans and health insurance issuers to provide coverage for preventive care services without any cost sharing. ...
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New Standard Procedures for Electronic Funds Transfers and Remittance ...

The Affordable Care Act requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue regulations aimed at streamlining healthcare administrative transactions, ...
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Automatic Enrollment in Health Plan

The Affordable Care Act requires an employer with more than 200 full-time employees to automatically enroll new full-time employees in the employer's health plan. Health ...
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Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) Requirements

The Affordable Care Act requires group health plans and health insurers to provide a Uniform Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) to plan participants, beneficiaries ...
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Employers Must Consider Application of MLR Rebates

The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provisions of the Affordable Care Act require insurers to spend at least a specified percentage of employees’ premium dollars on clinical ...
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Health Insurance Exchanges Important for Small Businesses

Affordable Health Insurance Exchanges are a major component of health care reform. Beginning in 2014, each state must offer individuals the opportunity to purchase ...
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Form W-2 Reporting of Health Coverage Under Health Care Reform

The Affordable Care Act created a new health coverage reporting requirement intended to provide employees useful and comparable consumer information about the cost of ...
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