Given the complexity and continued scrutiny of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Obama administration gave employers a reprieve: It postponed implementation of the "play-or-pay" requirements until Jan. 1, 2015.

But agents and brokers need to warn owners of family-owned businesses about the requirements today.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has estimated that the IRS could collect more than $87 billion in Section 4980H play-or-pay taxes from 2014 to 2019.

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