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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan admin - misc Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Health Reform News: Final Sbc Rule Tries to Eliminate Redundancy with SPD The ERISA Litigation Newslett, February 2012 [Official Guidance] 'Fact Sheet' from HHS on Final Regs on Summary of Benefits and Coverage and Uniform Glossary for Health Plan Participants [Official Guidance] Health Reform to Require Insurers to Use Plain Language in Describing Health Plan Benefits, Coverage [Official Guidance] IRS Notice 2012-17: Frequently-Asked-Questions From Employers Regarding Health Care Plan Automatic Enrollment, Employer Shared Responsibility, and Waiting Periods (PDF) [Official Guidance] Templates, Instructions and Related Guidance Regarding Final IRS/EBSA/CMS Regs on Required Summary of Benefits and Uniform Glossary for Health Plan Participants (PDF) [Official Guidance] Final IRS/EBSA/CMS Regs on Required Summary of Benefits and Uniform Glossary for Health Plan Participants (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Circuit Court Says Individuals Cannot Disclaim Entitlement to Medicare Part A [Guidance Overview] Health Care Compliance Form 8928 Excise Tax Self-Reporting Requirements [Guidance Overview] Top 10 ERISA Developments of 2011 Implementing the PPACA: A 2012 State To-Do List for Exchanges, Private Coverage, and Medicaid (PDF) Urban Institute's ACA Implementation Monitoring and Tracking Series Large Employers See Scenarios Under Which They Could Move Workers and Retirees to Exchanges Regulating Stop?Loss Coverage May Be Needed to Deter Self-Insuring Small Employers from Undermining Market Reforms [Guidance Overview] IRS Updates Model HSA Trust and Custodial Account Forms Obama Aides Seek To Calm Storm Over Contraceptive Rule Employers: Employees Don't Understand Benefits Milliman's Monthly Benefit News and Developments, February 2012 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Effect of New Michigan Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act on Group Health Plans Employers and the Exchanges under the Small Business Health Options Program: Examining the Potential and the Pitfalls [Guidance Overview] Maintaining 'Grandfathered Plan' Status for Group Health Plan Critical to Avoiding New Mandate on Coverage for Contraceptives [Opinion] An Affront Catholics Agree On Lowe's Sued over Cancelling Health Plan Participants' Coverage [Opinion] Comments of American Academy of Actuaries on HHS' Research Brief Entitled 'Actuarial Value and Employer-Sponsored Insurance' (PDF) [Guidance Overview] EEOC Issues Final Rule Extending Title VII And ADA Recordkeeping Requirements to GINA [Guidance Overview] Estoppel in ERISA: Simple Mistakes Can Lead to Costly Litigation Domestic Policy Council Director's Statements on White House Blog About Contraceptive Mandate Anger Brewing on the Left About Mandatory Contraceptive Coverage for Employees of Religious Employers [Guidance Overview] Slide Presentation: Form W-2 Reporting Requirements for Employer-Sponsored Group Health Coverage (PDF) [Guidance Overview] ACA Terminology Related to Essential Health Benefits, Minimum Essential Coverage and Minimum Value (PDF) Use of TPAs to Outsource Benefit Plan Administation Increased Substantially During Past Four Years (PDF) [Opinion] Aging Groups Argue That Most Health Reform Law Provisions Affecting Seniors Should Not Be Tied To Supreme Court's Ruling on Individual Mandate (PDF) [Opinion] Comments of American Benefits Council on HHS 'Essential Health Benefits' Bulletin (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Health Care Reform Update, by ML Strategies (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Deadline for Calendar Year Health Plans to Submit Creditable Coverage Disclosures to CMS is February 29 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Disenrollment Was Proper After Ignored Document Requests Employee Benefits Developments, January 2012 [Guidance Overview] Headlines in Employee Benefits Law E-Alert, January 2012 (PDF) How Will the Affordable Care Act Affect Small Businesses and Their Employees? (PDF) [Official Guidance] Second Quarter Update to the 2011? 2012 IRS Priority Guidance Plan (PDF) Establishing and Administering an OPEB Trust [Guidance Overview] Practitioners' Forum Discussion: Evans v. Sterling Chemicals, Inc. [Guidance Overview] Significant Compensation and Benefit Due Dates for 2012 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] American Health Benefit Exchanges Health Care Reform Law Requires Greater Collaboration Between HR and Finance Executives [Guidance Overview] Prepare for Health Plan Participant Fee State of the Union: Time to Trim the Regulatory Fat in Health Care ERISA Preemption of Michigan Paid Claims Assessment Act Report on 2011 U.S. and Canadian Legislative and Regulatory Developments for Health and Retirement Plans [Official Guidance] DOL Releases Semiannual Regulatory Agenda for Fall 2011 State Progress toward Health Reform Implementation: Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issues (PDF) [Guidance Overview] DOL's Proposed New Rules that Will Affect Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (PDF) Health Care Reform: Small Health Insurance Companies Feel Squeezed By New Law [Opinion] U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Comments on Final HHS Regs for Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Requirements Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [Guidance Overview] Internal Claims, Appeals and External Review: a Refresher for 2012 [Guidance Overview] ERRP Reminder: March 30 Deadline for Submission of Full-Replacement Claim List Litigation and Compliance Risks for Plan Sponsors in the New Health Reform Environment [Guidance Overview] 2011 Form M-1 Now Available; New Question Addresses Compliance with Health Care Reform Mandates [Guidance Overview] Updated IRS Procedures for Issuing Letter Rulings, Determination Letters, and Other Employee Plan Guidance Auditing Health Plan Dependent Eligibility Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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