Compliance

The administrative challenges of the FMLA give plenty of cause for HR headaches.

The ERISA Industry Committee, an employer advocacy group, implored the IRS in a letter to clarify how sponsors can implement new SECURE 2.0 features - and also offered recommendations for improving health care benefits.

Health insurance plans nationwide must continue to pay in full for preventive services, after the Biden administration signed an order partially halting a Texas federal judge's freeze on these services.

The vital thing to do when a mistake happens is to first correct it and alert relevant employees and officials, and then to learn from it.

It should be the responsibility of the well-informed, proactive counsel to keep the business client updated on any changes in the law.

"If you're a bad guy and you're not using ChatGPT or other LLMs to go and find vulnerabilities, you're probably not doing your job as a bad guy," said Scott Giordano, general counsel of Spirion.

As the new law rolls out, some plan sponsors are questioning whether the government's capabilities to negotiate with Medicare on lower drug prices could prompt manufacturers to increase medication costs for employer plans.

The whistleblower, Amy Vermillion, "brought a case [the government] never would have known about, [and the defendants] would have continued the fraud if it wasn't for her bringing this forward," said her lawyer, Mike Bothwell.