Since the implementation of Health Care Reform, certain employees and employers have been facing the problem of election lock in their cafeteria plans. In an employer-sponsored non-calendar year health plan, an employee’s election is irrevocable during the plan year if the premiums are paid through a cafeteria plan ...
The new ACA reporting requirements don’t go into effect until the 2015 plan year. And the first reports are not due to employees until early 2016. Just because these rules were delayed a year doesn’t mean employers have no action to take this year. Besides tracking employees hours this year for your look-back period ...
The deadline for having revised business associate agreements (BAAs) in place is September 22nd, which is only one week away. If you have sent BAAs out to your business associates and haven’t received them back, you should follow-up this week to ensure the agreements are executed by the deadline. If a business associate ...
Many employers are nearing the end of their first look-back measurement period for purposes of determining full-time employment status for health plan coverage. Before you finalize your counts on who is a full-time employee, it is important to make sure that you have taken all hours into account. The pay or play rules require that ...
In August, the EEOC effectively ended its silence regarding wellness programs when it filed suit against Wisconsin-based Orion Energy Systems, Inc. According to the EEOC’s complaint, employees who participated in Orion’s program had to undergo a health risk assessment, which included having blood work done and ...