Health Care Alert Archive

Following up on his campaign promise to pare back the federal regulatory process, yesterday, during a meeting of small business owners, President Trump signed an executive order (attached) limiting the issuance of new federal regulations and rulings. As is typical of the tone of ...Read More

Businesses across the nation are anticipating some major changes to occur in 2017 in the areas of healthcare and tax reform. While anticipating significant change, planning at this point is a bit of challenge, because no one can predict with accuracy the extent of ...Read More

In the process of preparing health reform alerts for our clients, we are seldom the bearer of good news, it seems. This is indeed one of those occasions. Employers have just completed the inaugural round of ACA filing requirements with considerable angst. With round ...Read More

IRS published a notice late last year to the effect it was beginning to work on proposed regulations for the Cadillac Tax. That notice[1] – 24 pages in length – outlined issues that would be in need of address and asked for public comment. ...Read More

With the current focus on ACA reporting, we are observing[1] more employers giving close attention to common control issues and discovering that indeed they are members of an aggregated group of applicable large employers and must report such on their 1094-C filing. We see ...Read More

The subject of this message concerns individuals who qualified for advance premium tax credits during 2015 when purchasing health insurance through healthcare.gov or their respective state-sponsored exchange. When those individuals file their 2015 tax return, they must complete and file IRS Form 8962, Premium ...Read More

Mid-sized employers – those who averaged between 50 and 99 full-time employees and full-time equivalents for calendar 2014 – are exempt from the §4980H penalties in 2015. Penalties cannot begin to apply to these employers until Jan. 1, 2016. However, this special transition rule does ...Read More