A recent IRS memorandum provides guidance on correcting health flexible spending account (FSA) payments for expenses that are not...

The Obama administration announced new updates to model COBRA notices intended to better align COBRA’s notice requirements with...

The IRS has released a memorandum that answers key questions for employers who want to offer health flexible spending account (HFSA)...

Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2014-30, announcing the 2015 maximum...

March 31 is the last day of the initial open enrollment period to sign up for healthcare exchange coverage under the Patient Protection...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued two final rules providing details on the information that employers must report to the IRS...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final regulation on the transitional reinsurance program (TRP) fee created by...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a new proposed rule for public comment, “Administrative Simplification:...

The Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services have released final regulations implementing the 90-day limit on...

The Treasury and the IRS have issued final regulations implementing the employer shared responsibility (mandate) provisions under the...

One of the major elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) is the creation of various insurance Exchanges...

The most recently issued guidance from the DOL comes in the form of another set of “Frequently Asked Questions” (FAQs). FAQ XVIII...

New proposed rules recently released by the Departments (IRS, DOL, and HHS) broaden the categories of health coverage that qualify as...

Under healthcare reform’s preventive services rules, a non-grandfathered, non-excepted group health plan must cover contraceptive drugs,...

Group health plans are prohibited from imposing excessive waiting periods on an otherwise eligible employee (or dependent) under...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) created a transitional reinsurance program (TRP) fee to help partially offset the...

The agencies have issued final rules under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). In February 2010, interim...

Same-sex marriage became legal in the state of New Jersey on October 21, 2013. With the addition of the same-sex marriage law, NJ...

The US Treasury Department and the Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued guidance concerning how the Patient Protection & Affordable...

The IRS recently released new inflation-adjusted amounts for 2014, establishing the tax-related salary deduction limits on a variety of...