Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2021 Edition

Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2021 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. This practical guide helps 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; meet deadlines and take advantage of opportunities to delay implementation; and more!

Specifically Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform will help you:

• Design your employee health plans to satisfy ACA requirements
• Design your workforce to minimize penalty exposure
• Understand new notice requirements that apply in 2015
• Achieve significant cost savings
• Meet deadlines and take advantage of opportunities to delay implementation
• Plan ahead to avoid or minimize Cadillac tax exposure

Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2021 Edition provides in-depth discussion and detailed explanations on critical topics, including:

• The repeal of the ACA's individual mandate penalty, the Fifth Circuit's decision determining the ACA's individual mandate provision unconstitutional, and the impending oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the individual mandate and the ACA.
• Update on the maximum out-of-pocket requirements relating to drug manufacturer coupons for group health plans
• A summary of group health plan requirements under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, and the Tri-Agency COVID-19 sub-regulatory guidance implementing these laws.
• Update on Tri-Agency Proposed Rule providing more flexibility for grandfathered health plans.
• Tri-Agency Proposed Rule on Transparency in Coverage requiring group health plans to provide costsharing information to participants and beneficiaries upon request, and to publish pricing information on a public website.
• Update on challenge to Final Rule on transparency of hospital charges.
• An update on the litigation relating to the constitutionality of the ACA, due to the repeal of the individual mandate penalty.
• An update on the ACA's requirement to cover contraception under the Trump Administration.
• An update on the challenges to ACA Section 1557 Nondiscrimination Final Rule provision requiring transgender services.
• An update on the challenges to the ACA's risk corridors program.
• And much more

Previous Edition: Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2020 Edition, ISBN 9781543810332