Compliance

The National Federation of Small Business is urging Congress to expand access to HSAs and HRAs and expand tax credits to small businesses in order to level the playing field between large and small employers.

Under the current language of the proposed rule, the ban would apply retroactively, so employers would have to notify current and former employees that the agreement is no longer valid.

These latest agreements, and their unfair attempts to restrict a person's future free speech rights, are in a different category entirely.

About 60% of the 173 million people enrolled in private health coverage used at least one of the Affordable Care Act's no-cost preventive services in 2018.

Major insurers are taking steps to eliminate, streamline and automate some of the paperwork required for patients to get many medical tests and procedures, before the proposed CMS rule is finalized.

The ruling, which applies nationwide and takes effect immediately, mandates that insurers and employers are not required to cover certain free preventive screenings for cancer, heart disease and other diseases under Obamacare.

Eliminating noncompete contracts would allow doctors to practice wherever their services are needed, which would improve patients' access to care.

A handbook is of little value if it is not regularly updated - and reviewed by counsel - to comply with changes in the law or the ever-evolving, post-pandemic world and to set the tone for company culture.