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Amendment deadline for cafeteria plans and HRAs

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2011

Prior to 2011, the cost of OTC medicines and drugs were medical expenses that were eligible for reimbursement from group health plans

Fourth Circuit rules that employer could not unilaterally change retiree health benefits

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 11 2011

In an age of escalating healthcare costs, collectively bargained retiree medical coverage presents special problems for employers

HHS to give states flexibility in setting minimum essential health benefits

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2012

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued the Essential Health Benefits Bulletin outlining proposed policies that will give states more flexibility and freedom to implement the “essential health benefits” requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA

McGuireWoods healthcare reform guide: installment no. 23 - agencies issue guidance on summary of benefits & coverage

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 27 2011

This is the 23rd in a series of WorkCite articles concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its companion bill, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

How effective is your healthcare compliance plan? Guidance for healthcare providers and investors

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2011

We have discussed in prior posts the unique regulatory enforcement climate that providers and investors currently find themselves

Proposed regulations issued on fees to be paid by health insurers and sponsors of self-insured health plans

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2012

This article discusses proposed regulations released by the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) to provide guidance on fees imposed by the Act on health insurers and self-insured health plan sponsors

One effect of Supreme Court’s healthcare law decision...

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2012

Today’s Supreme Court decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act means that the new, lower compensation deduction limitation under IRC section 162(m) for employees of covered public and private health insurance companies will indeed go into effect starting in 2013

Next perk for the dust bin? Executive medical insurance

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2012

At some point in the near future, we predict that executive medical benefits will be the next perk destined for the dust bin

An employee benefits perspective on the Supreme Court's decision on the healthcare reform law

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2012

In lawsuits brought by 26 state attorneys general, two private citizens and the National Federation of Independent Business, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday, in a 54 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, that the individual mandate of PPACA is within Congress’s power under the Taxing Clause of the Constitution

States looking at methods of curbing employee health costs

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2012

According to an issue brief released Oct. 25 by the National Governors Association, states are considering a variety of approaches to addressing rising employee health care costs