The federal government continued to rework regulations stemming from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in June amid a key court ruling and a wave of studies that tried to forecast how employers will cope with the long-term effects …

Roundup of employer-related news for July 2011.

Group health plans (other than those that are "grandfathered") must comply with a number of internal claims and appeals procedures that go beyond those previously required under ERISA.

We will review how plan sponsors can use one or more "wrap" documents to satisfy compliance requirements.

Federal regulators have been busy recently with their own version of spring cleaning, announcing tweaks to Medicare notices, health savings account limits and a host of other proposed rules that would affect employer-sponsored health care plans.

Despite concerns about the impact of rising health care costs on their businesses and employees, only one in six employers (16.3 percent) say they favor a federally tax-funded universal health care system, according to the 2011 UBA Benefit Opinions Sur…

As explained in our November 2010 article, last year’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) restricted the ability of employer health plans, including flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), to reimburse expenses incurr…

Learn an overview of general HIPAA Privacy and Security rules, focusing on what has changed since enactment of the HITECH Act.