Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2015 Edition is the premier step-by-step practical guide for employers struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of changes affecting their health benefit plans. Specifically, it will help you:
- Strategize about how to design your employee health plans to satisfy ACA requirements
- Design your workforce to minimize penalty exposure
- Achieve significant cost-savings
- Understand new notice requirements that apply in 2015
- Meet deadlines and take advantage of opportunities to delay implementation
- And much more!
Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2015 Edition provides in-depth discussion and detailed explanations on a number of critical topics, including:
- Implementation of the individual mandate
- The new requirement for employers with self-funded health plans and insurers to report information to the IRS regarding minimum essential coverage
- New rules providing flexibility to employers subject to the employer mandate for certain classes of employees
- Making strategic decisions about the design of employee health plans in light of the employer mandate, the advent of "private" exchanges, and the availability of certain other techniques for delivering health benefits to employees
- The transitional relief and enforcement delays for the employer pay-or-play requirements
- How employers may integrate health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) with other health coverage to satisfy the requirement to provide "minimum essential coverage"
- An update to the Medicare Part D thresholds, as modified by the ACA
- The amount and reporting of the transitional reinsurance fee payable by insurers and employer-sponsored group health plans in 2015
- And much more