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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] Insurance Company Not a Proper Defendant in ERISA Benefit Claim Lawsuit Ninth Circuit Checklist of Abuse of Discretion Factors [Guidance Overview] District Court Within The Ninth Circuit Holds That Priority Language Overrides the Make-Whole Rule DOL Intends to Increase Investigation and Prosecution of Businesses That Misclassify Employees as Independent Contractors Making Your Healthcare Plan More Cost-Effective Through a Dependent Audit (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New Regulations Prohibit Questions Regarding Family History or Other Genetic Information on Certain Health Risk Assessments [Guidance Overview] DOL Provides Spanish Version of CHIP Notice New Tool Available for Health Plans to Assess their Health Literacy Programs [Guidance Overview] DOL Provides Spanish Version of CHIP Notice Medical Tourism Can Generate 20% to 80% Savings for Employers [Guidance Overview] New Mental Health & Substance Abuse Parity Regulations May Require Health Plan Changes This Year Medical Tourism Grows; Hold On We're In For a Wild Ride [Guidance Overview] EBSA Cites Statistics Showing Effective 'Targeting' of ERISA Plans New Parity Rules Not Prompting Employers to Drop Mental Health Benefits [Guidance Overview] DOL Releases New Proposed Investment Advice Regulation [Guidance Overview] New Interim Final Regulations on Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 Check Your Posters: Passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Imposes New Obligations and Posting Requirements on Employers [Guidance Overview] New Interim Final Regulations on Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 [Guidance Overview] Overview of Interim Final Regulations on Mental Health Parity Law (PDF) Research Paper: What Is the Distribution of Lifetime Health Care Costs From Age 65? [Guidance Overview] Health Plan's TPA Was an ERISA Fiduciary Despite Contractual Disclaimer of Fiduciary Status [Guidance Overview] About the DOL Model Notice for New CHIP Disclosure Requirement Why Pay For Health Insurance When You Can Steal It? DOL Proposed Reg Defining 'Welfare Plan' Would Create ERISA Preemption Carveout for Pay-or-Play Healthcare Laws Summary of Possible Worker Classification Legislation (PDF) Fact Sheet from DOL on ERISA Enforcement Results During 2009 Employee Benefits Developments, February 2010 [Guidance Overview] Medicare Mandatory Reporting Requirements Update [Guidance Overview] New Form 8928 Issued for Reporting Group Health Plan Excise Taxes Lessons from, and Research on, Open Enrollment [Guidance Overview] Employee Benefits Update, February 2010 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Health Plan TPA Still a Fiduciary Despite Disclaimer [Guidance Overview] Book Excerpt: Contingent Workers & Employee Benefits (PDF) Microsoft Does a Benefits Tech Makeover Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Delays Medicare Secondary Payer Mandatory Reporting, Which Was to Begin April 1, to Jan. 1, 2011 A Survey of Health Care Claims Receipt and Processing Times, 2009 Update (PDF) Supreme Court Rules that ERISA Preempts State Law Claims Challenging Utilization Review by HMO [Guidance Overview] Employers Sponsoring Health Insurance for Workers Must Provide CHIPRA Notice [Guidance Overview] Providing the Department of Labor Model CHIP Notice Milliman's Monthly Benefit News and Developments, February 2010 (PDF) Washington, D.C. Update: The Feds Have a Full Employee Benefits Agenda (PDF) [Guidance Overview] DOL's Model Notice Regarding CHIPRA Premium Assistance Subsidies [Official Guidance] Text of Model Employer CHIP Notice to Employees About Availability of Premium Assistance Under State Medicaid Programs or Child Health Assistance Programs [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance on Miscellaneous HEART Act Changes (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Requirement of Reporting and Excise Taxes for Health Plan Non-Compliance [Guidance Overview] Interim Final Regulations Under Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (PDF) Top 10 Health Law Issues for 2010 [Guidance Overview] Agencies Issue Long-Awaited Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 Regulations for Group Health Plans [Opinion] Current Economic Situation No Excuse for ERISA Shortcuts [Official Guidance] Text (MS Word Document) of Model Notice for Employers to Use Regarding Eligibility for Premium Assistance Under Medicaid or CHIP [Guidance Overview] Does Your Health Plan Violate the New Mental Health Parity Rules? (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Discovery of Disability Claims Administrator's Personnel Records Permitted on Question of Bias [Guidance Overview] DOL Publishes Model Employer CHIP Notice Accountable Care Organizations: Executive Briefing for Health Care Decision-Makers [Official Guidance] Model Notice from DOL for Employers to Use Regarding Eligibility: Premium Assistance Under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Beginning in July, Employer Health Plans Will Be Subject to Mental Health Parity Rules [Guidance Overview] Summary: Interim Final Regulations Implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (PDF) Employee Benefits Developments, January 2010 [Official Guidance] Text of Interim Final Regulations Under Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (Typeset Version in Federal Register) (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Regulations Clarify Mental Health Parity Act 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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