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Tag: Healthcare
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Health Care Cost Hike Worries a Key 2011 Business Issue
December 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Some 95% of the 600 employers surveyed by Aon Hewitt say a top business issue...
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Cincinnati Workers Fight Health Coverage Cuts
December 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A group of city of Cincinnati employees are trying to convince an Ohio state court...
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Are Executive Physical Programs Impacted by the PPACA’s New Nondiscrimination Rules?
December 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This week a reader asks, do the new nondiscrimination rules apply to an executive physical...
Regulators Put Out RFI for Value-Based Health Coverage Data
December 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal regulators have issued a request for information (RFI) on how group health plans and...
IRS Releases New FSA/HRA Guidance for 2011
December 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has put out new guidance allowing continued use of health flexible...
Regulators Publish New Set of HCR FAQs
December 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal regulators have issued the latest in a series of FAQs dealing with implementation of...
IRS Offers Deduction Guidance on Payments to Insurance Providers by Highly Compensated
December 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance on how to apply...
IRS Pushes Back PPACA Nondiscrimination Compliance Date
December 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published a notice pushing back the...
MA Announces 2011 Health Coverage Penalties
December 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DoR) has posted the proposed 2011 penalty schedule for those...
HHS Releases Insurance Rate Review Proposal
December 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal regulators on Tuesday proposed rules requiring insurers to publicly justify “unreasonable” rate increases starting...
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Must Dental and Vision Plans Include Young Adults Under PPACA?
December 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – This week a reader asks if dental and vision plans are required to include children...
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Interest in Health Incentives Dropping
December 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The percentage of people who think getting a financial incentive would be extremely or very...
Feds to Appeal HCR Challenge Ruling
December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Justice Department will ask a federal appellate court to review a federal judge’s...
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What You Need to Know About Medical Loss Ratios
December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On December 1, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an Interim...
Judge Strikes Down HCR Coverage Mandate
December 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the mandate in the health care reform law...
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CDHP Enrollment Growing Slowly
December 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ranks of people enrolled in either a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) or a high-deductible...
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Many Employers Have Yet to Study HCR Fiscal Impact
December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Eighty-four percent of those in a recent Ernst & Young poll said managing the changes...
222 Mini-Med Health Plan Sponsors Approved for Waivers
December 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has approved 222 applications by mini-med plan...
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HHS Issues More Guidance on Restricted Annual Limit Waiver Program
December 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On November 5, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released additional guidance...