Managing Health Care Costs: Federal
This section helps HR professionals understand strategies they can use to reduce health care costs, including cost-sharing, implementing disease management and wellness programs and conducting...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage Rulings in Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Pennsylvania:...
The legalization of same-sex marriage potentially requires employers to provide benefits such as health care coverage and leave time to a broader range of employees, which may also have tax implications.
View ArticleFAQs on Pre-Existing Conditions and Waiting Periods Added to Health Care...
These FAQs provide answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the Affordable Care Act's pre-existing condition exclusion and 90-day waiting period limitations.
View ArticleFAQs on Full-Time Employee Status Added to Health Care Reform Resource Center
These FAQs help explain how the Affordable Care Act determines full-time employee status. An employer can use this information to determine whether it must offer health benefits or else pay a penalty,...
View ArticleFinal Affordable Care Act Regulations Clarify 90-Day Waiting Period Limitation
Final regulations on the Affordable Care Act's 90-day waiting period limitation, which clarify the one-month maximum length of orientation periods preceding the waiting period.
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Timeline
The requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) go into effect over several years. This chart summarizes major provisions of health care reform that are already in effect as well as those that will...
View ArticleMedical and Dental Insurance Handbook Statement
Employers seeking to advise employees who is eligible to participate in medical and dental insurance, whether and to what extent coverage may extend to spouses and other family members and when benefit...
View ArticleSupreme Court Health Care Case Has High Stakes for Employers
The Supreme Court heard arguments on March 4 in a hotly-debated Affordable Care Act case which affects the future of the 2010 health care law. At stake in King v. Burwell is whether Congress intended...
View ArticlePodcast Features Supreme Court's High Stakes Health Care Case
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that could decide the future of the Affordable Care Act. XpertHR takes you inside the courtroom for a unique perspective on this hotly-debated issue...
View ArticleArkansas Court Orders Recognition of Same-Sex Couples Married in 2014:...
The Pulaski County Circuit Court has ordered Arkansas to recognize the same-sex marriages performed in the state between May 9 and May 16, 2014.
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