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What Brokers Should Be Doing Now to Get Clients ACA-Ready | PA Benefits Consultants
How to position yourself as a trusted ACA compliance advisor For brokers and benefits advisors, Q4 planning doesn’t start in October. It starts now. September marks a critical moment in the annual ACA compliance cycle, when employers begin thinking about year-end strategies, benefits renewals, and how to avoid last-minute reporting panic. That makes now the perfect…
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ACA Update: Enhanced No-Cost Cancer Screenings for Women Coming in 2026 | Pennsylvania Benefits Agents
Big changes are coming to women’s preventive care coverage! Starting with plan years on or after December 31, 2025, group health plans and health insurance issuers must expand their no-cost coverage for women’s preventive care. This expansion includes additional breast cancer imaging or testing needed to complete an initial mammogram, as well as patient navigation…
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Benefits Buzz January 2024 | Pennsylvania Benefits Agency
Health Plans Must Expand Price Comparison Tool for 2024 Beginning in 2024, group health plans and health insurance issuers must expand the internet-based price comparison tool they make available to participants, beneficiaries and enrollees so that it includes all covered items, services and drugs. The purpose of this tool is to provide consumers with real-time…
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Biden-Harris Administration Issues Third Rule To Implement No Surprises Act | Pennsylvania Benefits Partners
WASHINGTON – The Biden-Harris administration – through the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management – today issued an interim final rule with comment period to continue implementation of the No Surprises Act, a consumer protection law that helps curb the practice known as “surprise billing” for medical care. The…
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Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I Interim Final Rule with Comment Period | Pennsylvania Benefits Agency
On July 1, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released an interim final rule with comment period (IFC), entitled “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I.” This rule related to Title…
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Court Blocks New DOL Rules on Association Health Plans | Pennsylvania Employee Benefits Firm
In March, a federal district court struck down a Department of Labor (DOL) Rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs). Issued in 2018, the DOL rule aimed to expand the availability of AHPs to a greater number of small businesses as an alternative to standard ACA-compliant small group insurance policies. For details, see our June 2018…
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IRS Extends Deadline for Employers to Furnish Forms 1095-C and 1095-B | PA Employee Benefits Consultants
On November 29, 2018, the IRS released Notice 2018-94 to extend the due date for employers to furnish 2018 Form 1095-C or 1095-B under the Affordable Care Act’s employer reporting requirement. Employers will have an extra month to prepare and distribute the 2018 form to individuals. The due dates for filing forms with the IRS…
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PCORI Fee Increase for Health Plans | PA Benefits Consultants
On November 5, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2018-85 to announce that the health plan Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee for plan years ending between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019 will be $2.45 per plan participant. This is an increase from the prior year’s fee of $2.39 due to…
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Healthcare Tax Repeal | PA Benefits Agency
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in ACA, Benefit consultants, benefits, business, custom content, Employees, Employers, federal law, fefderal law, Financial Planning, Financial Wellness, health, Health Insurance, Health Savings Account, HR, Insurance, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, president, President Trump, tax, tax cuts, tax law, taxes, WorkplaceRecently, the President signed a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate (the tax penalty imposed on individuals who are not enrolled in health insurance). While some are praising this action, there are others who are concerned with its aftermath. So how does this affect you and why should you pay attention to this…
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Healthcare Tax Repeal | Pennsylvania Benefits Firm
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Recently, the President signed a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate (the tax penalty imposed on individuals who are not enrolled in health insurance). While some are praising this action, there are others who are concerned with its aftermath. So how does this affect you and why should you pay attention to this…
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