Although the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act isnt new, this is the first year that the IRS is attempting to collect penalties from companies that didnt shell outfor violations incurred in 2015.
A U.S. District judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administrations rule changes allowing some employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
A trove of data shows which doctors are prescribing the most, how far patients will travel to see them and whether any have died within 60 days of receiving one of their prescriptions, among other information.
According to the Government Accountability Office, people are paying almost twice as much for prescription drugs as they did 30 years ago, and retail prescription drug expenses ate up some 12 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending in 2015.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given U.S. health insurers bad news and good news about how individual health coverage performed in 2016.
If an employer wants to offer employees pretax payroll deferrals to their health savings accounts, the employer needs to first create a Section 125 plan or cafeteria plan that allows HSA deferrals.
There are a lot of employers out there who have had some really bad renewal days as they meet with their traditional benefits broker to receive the inevitable bad news.