Feb 17, 2020 | Affordable Care Act, Announcements, Compliance, Health Care Reform, Specialty Drugs, USPSTF
Per the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employer-sponsored health plans will be required to cover the HIV specialty drugs Pruvada and Descovy at 100% beginning their first plan year following June 19, 2020. The requirement follows a United States Preventive Services Task...
Dec 20, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, Announcements, Cadillac Tax, Caroline Fraker, IRS, News, PCORI, Self-funding
On December 19, the Senate passed the $1.4 trillion end-of-year spending package that will fund the government through September 2020. The bill brings self-funded employers good news and bad news: If signed by President Trump, it would finally repeal the so-called...
Aug 9, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, Announcements, Compliance
In 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final regulations on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) non-discrimination provisions, also referred to as Section 1557. At that time, MedBen brought these new provisions to your attention and...
Apr 4, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Regulatory
While the legal future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) recently made the headlines, another legal decision related to the ACA also has a direct bearing on self-funded employers. On March 28, a federal judge struck down the Department of Labor’s expansion of...
Apr 3, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, Compliance, Health Care Reform, News, Self-funding
There’s been a flurry of news lately regarding the fate of Affordable Care Act (ACA), but for self-funded employers, it adds up to business as usual… at least for the moment. On March 25, the Justice Department informed the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that it...
Mar 7, 2019 | Affordable Care Act, Consumer-driven Health Plans, Flexible spending accounts (FSAs), Health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs)
A few reminders for MedBen clients who offer flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and/or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) to their plan members: For most FSA and HRA plans that have a January effective date, March 31, 2019 is the final day of the run-out period...
