
Susan Nash
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1 week ago |
mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Amy Gordon |Joanna Kerpen |Erin Weber
1. The Departments Pause Enforcement of 2024 FinalMental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)Regulations. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Department of Labor, andDepartment of Health and Human Services (the Departments) have announced that they will not enforce theSeptember 9, 2024 final MHPAEA regulations (the "2024 FinalRule"), which expanded nonquantitative treatment limitation(NQTL) comparative analyses requirements under MHPAEA.
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2 weeks ago |
mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Susan Nash |Grant E. Shillington |Kristine Lofquist
The IRS recently released Revenue Procedure 2025-19 with the 2026inflation-adjusted amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs),high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), and excepted-benefit healthreimbursement arrangements (HRAs).
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2 months 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.
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Feb 5, 2025 |
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.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Amy Gordon |Erin Weber |Jamie Weyeneth
As 2025 begins, we wanted to highlight several important changesthat will impact employer-sponsored group health plans:On December 23, 2024, the Paperwork Burden Protection Act and the Employer Reporting Improvement Act (the Acts)became law.
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