The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires health plans to provide special enrollment opportunities for employees and their dependents outside the plans’ regular enrollment periods in certain situations. This checklist outlines steps for determining certain factors to assist employers in complying with HIPAA’s special enrollment rules.
Earlier this month, federal agencies issued deadline relief and Notice 2024-01 to ensure that employee benefit plans, participants, beneficiaries, qualified beneficiaries and claimants in disaster areas are not further adversely affected by Hurricane Helene, Tropical Storm Helene and Hurricane Milton.
The IRS recently issued Notice 2024-75 to expand the list of preventive care benefits permitted to be provided by a high deductible health plan without a deductible (or with a deductible below the minimum deductible). The Notice also clarifies items and services that qualify as preventive care for HDHP purposes.
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury released a proposed rule that, if finalized, would expand access to contraceptive coverage without cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care mandate.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released the maximum limits on cost sharing in 2026 under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires non-grandfathered group health plans to comply with a maximum annual limitation on enrollee cost sharing for essential health benefits, often referred to as the out-of-pocket maximum.
The newly finalized regulations amending the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 introduce significant changes to the application of nonquantitative treatment limitations and enhance protections for access to mental health and substance use disorder benefits. Attend our December 10 webinar, Navigating the New Mental Health Parity Rule: Key Insights for Employers, to gain a clear understanding of the final rules, practical tools for compliance and actionable insights.
Hylant's HR Navigator offers an abundance of tools and resources that enable HR professionals to operate effectively and efficiently. One such resource: Health Plan Compliance Calendar. By answering a few questions about your healthcare plan, you can generate a customized compliance calendar with a rolling list of federal compliance dates, monthly reminders and supplementary resources—everything you need to remain informed, meet upcoming deadlines and generate applicable notices.
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