Health Insurance Exchanges after the Obamacare Ruling
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act means that states will need to act quickly to develop health insurance exchanges as...
View ArticleIRS Defines “Full-Time” Employees for Health Care Benefits
Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service issued important guidance for employers on the rules for identifying “full-time” employees for the purposes of the Affordable Care Act. It’s an...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: Three Upcoming Employer Deadlines
“Since 2010, when the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act was passed, a gazillion news stories, articles and seminars have talked about what the act means and requires… One of the many issues...
View ArticleFeds Propose New Guidance on Wellness Programs. Feel Better Now?
“Wellness programs take many forms; however, the common feature of all wellness programs is that they are designed to encourage healthier lifestyles, often by rewarding participants for attaining or...
View ArticleHIPAA Update: How to Turn Protected Health Information into Research Data
“HIPAA places tight restrictions on the use and disclosure of protected health information, but there are many ways to ‘de-identify’ it, freeing it from HIPAA’s constraints. Covered entities and...
View ArticleNew 2.3% Medical Device Excise Tax Goes into Effect January 1, 2013
Earlier this month, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued final rules for the new 2.3% excise tax that will be imposed on medical devices as of January 1, 2013 pursuant...
View Article2012 in Review – The Most Popular Corporate Law Report Posts of the Year
What’s on your mind? Four themes in particular, if we go by what you’ve read over the past year: Legal issues related to doing business internationally Dodd-Frank regulations and other financial...
View ArticleFTC Issues Favorable Opinion for Clinical Integration Program
In its first advisory opinion letter issued since implementation began on the Affordable Care Act, the Federal Trade Commission indicated that it would not challenge a proposal from the Norman...
View ArticlePay or Play? Feds Give Employers One More Year to Play Before You Have to Pay...
Think you won’t be able to meet the Affordable Care Act’s “Shared Responsibility” deadline? So do the Feds, who just extended the 2014 deadline to 2015. From attorneys at Cox Smith: “On [July 2, 2013],...
View Article7 Hot Workplace Issues for 2014
From experts writing on JD Supra, here’s a look at some of the issues that should dominate the employment landscape in 2014: 1. The Affordable Care Act The 12-month postponement of the employer...
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