From the KT Health and Welfare Team: The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury recently released yet another page from their Affordable Care Act playbook. The guidance gives a preview of upcoming regulations concerning the employer penalty, the 90-day waiting period and automatic enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. One important piece [...]
The HSA minimum deductible, a benchmark for comparing HSAs with traditional PPO plans, will rise to $2,500 family and $1,250 individual in 2013, the first increase in the past 3 years, according to former Treasury official Roy Ramthun who makes the annual estimate using near-final government data. A statutory technical freeze on the rise for [...]
Technorati Tags: non discrimination testing in health insurance,IRS,HHS,DOL,Treasury,Taxes By Ric Joyner Last night I posted the news about the delay in NDT (as some call it). The synopsis is this; The IRS/Treasury/HHS/DOL will work on the guidance in 2011 for plans starting after 2012. My gut is telling me that the delay has many causes. [...]
Technorati Tags: IRS,Treasury,Taxes,HHS,PPACA,Non Discrimintation in Health Insurance IRS email: Notice 2011-1 addressing the timing of the application of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions prohibiting insured group health plans from discriminating in favor of highly compensated individuals. It states that the Treasury Department and the IRS, as well as the Departments of Labor [...]
Researched by Ric Joyner Technorati Tags: IRS,Treasury,Taxes,Employee Benefits Upcoming Events Name Date(s) Location Non-IRS Co-Sponsor(s) For Further Information, Please Contact Mid-Atlantic Benefits Conference 05/05/2011 thru 05/06/2011 Philadelphia, PA American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) www.asppa.org or ASPPA Meeting Department (703) 516-9300 SWBA/IRS 21th Annual Employee Benefits Conference 11/18/2010 thru 11/19/2010 Dallas, TX SouthWest [...]
Technorati Tags: Grandfather status,Grandfather,HHS,DOL,Treasury By Larry Grudzien, JD Edited by Ric Joyner November 15, 2010 On June 17th, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (the Departments) issued the “grandfather” regulation. This regulation defined the ways a health plan can keep its grandfather status. The goal is to protect Americans’ ability [...]
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