ERIC urged HHS to modify proposed rules that would require employer group health plans to certify compliance with standards and operating rules adopted under HIPAA for certain electronic transactions.
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ERIC Offers Recommendations on Proposed Changes to Excepted Benefits Definition
ERIC offered a series of recommendations to make sure that plan sponsors may continue to make their employee assistance programs available to all employees.
ERIC Expresses Concern over Proposed Changes to Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates
ERIC, along with several other business trade organizations, on March 6 wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner expressing concern with the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year 2015 for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates that proposes to lower the MA payment rate by more than four percent. The …
ERIC Asks that Transitional Reinsurance Fee Be Implemented on Fair and Impartial Basis
ERIC submitted comments to HHS urging the agency to ensure that the method for computing the transitional reinsurance fee under the ACA not impose unnecessary administrative burdens or costs on employers, and that the fee be applied on a fair and impartial basis.
ERIC Urges Supreme Court to Confirm that FICA Taxes Do Not Apply to Supplemental Unemployment Benefits
ERIC filed with the U.S. Supreme Court an amicus brief in the United States v. Quality Stores case.
ERIC Files Amicus Brief in United States v. Quality Stores before U.S. Supreme Court
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ERIC Recommends that IRS Further Simplify ACA Employer Information-Reporting Requirements before Treasury/IRS Hearing
ERIC testified before a joint Treasury Department and IRS hearing on proposed regulations under the Affordable Care Act on information reporting by large employers on health coverage.
ERIC Urges IRS to Further Simplify ACA Employer Information-Reporting Requirements
ERIC filed comments urging the IRS to further revise and simplify the proposed regulations concerning reporting requirements applicable to health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans.
ERIC Suggests Revisions to ACA Minimum Value Proposed Regulations
ERIC submitted to the IRS a series of recommendations to improve proposed regulations relating to the determination of affordability and minimum value of eligible employer-sponsored plans under the ACA.
ERIC Urges CMS to Reconsider Restrictive Requirements on Part D Automatic Prescription Refills
ERIC, along with several other employer business groups, on June 11 wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services urging the agency to reconsider unnecessarily restrictive requirements on automatic prescription refill programs under Medicare Part D. The group letter expresses concern over a proposed change that would require Part D plans to retain, and …