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1 month 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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1 month 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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Mar 21, 2025 | 
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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Dec 26, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Susan Nash
AS FOOD PRICES continue to rise, there is one bright star this holiday season. The state’s CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project is back, just in time to provide much-needed food dollars to families facing food insecurity. The CalFresh Pilot gives recipients of CalFresh benefits a dollar back for every dollar spent on fruits and vegetables at participating California retailers.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Susan Nash
WINTER IN MENDOCINO COUNTY is not for the faint of heart. For children without warm clothing, winter is long and cold. This year two professional chefs
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
mendovoice.com | Susan Nash
FORT BRAGG, CA., 10/29/24 — The Mendocino Coast Health Care District and Adventist Health continue to negotiate a “restructuring” of the existing lease of Adventist Health’s Fort Bragg hospital facility while trying to reassure an anxious public that the hospital will not close. In a third joint statement issued on October 24, both entities said that “there is NO consideration to close the Mendocino Coast Hospital.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Susan Nash |Jamie Weyeneth |Erin Weber
Free Preventive Care Services Under the ACA Can Continue,
but Appointment of USPSTF Found to Be Unconstitutional
Last month, the United States (U.S.) Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit partially upheld a lower court ruling in
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra that invalidated the
preventive care mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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May 13, 2024 | 
jabfm.org | Susan Nash
AbstractIntroduction: Effective management of hypertension (HTN) is a priority in primary care. With telehealth now considered a staple care delivery method, uninsured and low-income patients without home blood pressure (BP) monitors may need additional attention and resources to achieve successful HTN control. Methods: This prospective study at an underserved community clinic assessed the impact of distributing free BP monitors on patients’ HTN control and therapy adherence.
