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Health Savings Accounts: Congress and the IRS Team Up to Throw Us a Curve Spring training is still underway and Opening Day is two weeks away, but the first curveball of the 2018 employee benefits season has just been thrown. The dollar limits for contributions to Health Savings Accounts (“HSAs”) […]

IRS Again Extends Deadline for Distributing 1095-B and 1095-C Forms and Continues Good Faith Standard in Completing Forms If the IRS releases new guidance so late in December that nearly everyone has already left for Christmas vacation, is the effect the same as a tree falling in a vacant forest?  […]

Although the regulatory environment surrounding the Affordable Care Act continues to remain mostly silent this year – providing all of us a welcome respite from the chaotic whirlwind of activity over the last few years – the IRS did announce a number of important changes that will affect all employers […]

One of the lesser known, but critically significant, changes ushered in by the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) was a general prohibition on employers reimbursing the cost of their employees’ individual health insurance policies.  The failure to adhere to this rule triggers substantial excise taxes that can break the back of […]

It has long been a practice of the federal government to dump bad news on the public on Friday afternoons.  So when we received an email on the afternoon of Friday, November 18, 2016, that the IRS was announcing changes to the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) health care reporting requirements, […]

A growing number of employers are adding telemedicine arrangements to their overall benefits package.  The reports we are receiving from employers and participants alike are that these programs are both popular and beneficial.  Unfortunately, there is a broad array of legal pitfalls dotting the telemedicine landscape.  Employers who fail to […]

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced in March that, as part of its continued efforts to assess compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, it is beginning a new phase of audits of covered entities and their business associates. […]

Although the regulatory environment surrounding the Affordable Care Act has been mercifully quiet this year – providing employers and employee benefit practitioners a brief chance to catch their breath – the IRS did announce a number of important changes late last year that affect all employers with at least fifty […]

Just as employers were revving up to comply with the new IRS reporting requirements for employer-provided medical coverage, the IRS announced that it was extending the deadlines. To view this Alert in PDF, click here. Although the IRS’s December 28, 2015, announcement in Notice 2016-04 didn’t quite come in time […]

We have recently received a number of questions about the Medicare Part D notice requirement. Although this requirement is not new – it first took effect in November 2005 – we thought that, as we approach its ten-year anniversary, it might be worthwhile to review what is required. To view […]