Joanna Kerpen

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Joanna Kerpen |Jamie Weyeneth |Amy Gordon

Effective January 15, 2025, the United States Department ofLabor increased its ERISA health and welfare civil penalties fornoncompliance.SeeFederal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment ActAnnual Adjustments for 2025. Below we have outlined the formermaximum and minimum penalties, the new maximum and minimumpenalties, and the increase.

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Amy Gordon |Erin Weber |Joanna Kerpen

In the past few months, group health plans have experienced asurge of litigation challenging premium surcharges based onparticipants' tobacco use. As we have previously noted, the Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as amended by the AffordableCare Act (ACA), allows group health plans to offer as much as a 50%incentive, or surcharge, for wellness programs designed to preventor reduce tobacco use.

Sep 30, 2024 | mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Jamie Weyeneth |Joanna Kerpen |Erin Weber

Earlier this month, the U.S. Departments of Labor (the DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Treasury (the Departments) released the long-awaited Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) final rule (the Final Rule).