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Health care reform management alert series summaries of benefits and coverage - round 2 issue 61

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

This is the sixty-first issue in our health care reform series of alerts for employers on selected topics in health care reform. (Our general summary

Calculating and paying the comparative effectiveness research fee

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2012

The Affordable Care Act imposes a “comparative effectiveness fee,” on all insurers and sponsors of group health plans, for plan years ending on or after October 1, 2012 (meaning calendar year plans are subject to the fee starting in 2012

Does my plan provide minimum value?

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2012

Recent IRS guidance proposes three ways for employers to determine whether their plans provide “minimum value,” as required under the Affordable Care Act

Rule delays effective date, modifies requirement

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2012

The Affordable Care Act requires group health plan sponsors (employers and insurers) to provide participants with a short Summary of Benefits and Coverage for each benefit package offered

Medical loss ratio rebates expected in August 2012 - could constitute plan assets

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 9 2012

Employers sponsoring a fully-insured group health plan or benefit option (e.g., an HMO option) could receive a rebate from the insurance policy issuer as soon as August of this year, under the Affordable Care Act’s new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules

Summary of benefits and coverage and advance notice of modifications

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2011

This is the twenty-fourth issue in our health care reform series of alerts for employers on selected topics in health care reform