Legislative Updates

In November 2018, Democrats secured 218 seats in the mid-term elections to gain back control over the House of Representatives and deliver a decidedly pro-ACA House of Representatives. Demand for [...]

Update for February 14, 2019: Since U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the ACA in its entirety was unconditional in mid-December of 2018, more activity has taken place [...]

Healthcare continues to be a focus of the Trump Administration and President Trump has used Executive Orders to drive regulatory change. In October 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order [...]

A year ago the IRS began issuing Letter 226-J notifying employers — those that may not have complied with section 4980H(a) and (b) of the ACA employer mandate during the 2015 tax year — of the [...]

On October 1, 2018, the IRS released the 2018 1095/1094 final forms and instructions for IRS reporting under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As expected based on earlier released draft forms, only [...]

September 26, 2018 Update: Due to Hurricane Florence’s devastating result in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the House postponed many items on the House agenda, including HR 3798, [...]

Update: The IRS has used Letter 226-J to notify employers who may have not complied with section 4980(b), the ACA employer mandate, during the 2015 tax year. A recent Treasury Inspector General [...]

Self-funded plan sponsors: Don’t miss the July deadline to file and remit payment for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCORI) fee. The PCORI is a non-profit institute that was created [...]

While the pace of ACA news in mainstream media has slowed, health reform and changes to ACA-related regulations and revisions continue. So, we wanted to spend our blog today digging a little [...]

With the passage of the new tax law came the repeal of the individual mandate, which will go into effect January 1, 2019. The employer shared responsibility mandate was not affected by the tax [...]