This article is more than 10 years old. As the Affordable Care Act and moves by employers and private insurers emphasize lower cost medical care and increased quality, consumers need to closely ...

The ACA requires employers and/or health insurance issuers ... Such plans usually provide basic preventive services required by the Market Reforms of the ACA, doctor visits, and the like, but ...

As plan sponsors continue to work through Affordable Care Act compliance, there has been some discussion ... So, I think it’s productive to look at the basics of whether employers are single employer, ...

Therefore, employers should track scheduled and actual hours, beginning Jan. 1, 2014. To decide how to deal with the ACA, know certain basic facts. Is your company “large” (and subject to pena ...

Tips for Large Employers: Large employers should consider ... plan years contained eligibility criteria consistent with the ACA’s definition of “full-time” employee. Premium Rate Structures.

According to Nicola, because the ACA penalizes most employers for not carrying insurance ... level of expanded Medicaid coverage and other basic tenets of the law. He added that while most medium ...

Regulations implementing the Affordable Care Act s employer shared responsibility rules including ... a final rule governing waiting periods), the government has assembled a basic but by no means ...

As a result, some are facing significant consequences for non-compliance. Currently, under the ACA's employer shared-responsibility (ESR) provisions, certain employers (called “applicable large ...

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Arthur Tacchino wants to remind everyone that, as of today, the Affordable Care Act employer coverage reporting rules are still in effect. U.S. employers with 50 or more full-time employees ...

This year, many employers will have a new challenge to add to their lists: ACA reporting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) added new reporting rules to the federal tax code that will affect many ...