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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] Chart of State Domestic Partner and Same-Sex Marriage Laws as of May 10, 2012 HHS Finalizes Requirement to Notify Consumers When MLR Spending Targets Met How Does Health Reform Affect Rural America? Proskauer ERISA Litigation Newsletter, May 2012 DOL Begins Enforcing the ACA Through Plan Audits [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Announcement on Medical Loss Ratio Annual Reporting Form Reminding Health Insurers of June 1 Deadline (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Announcement on Medical Loss Ratio Rebate Notices, Reminding Health Insurers of August 1 Deadline (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of General CCIIO Guidance on Federally-Facilitated Health Exchanges (PDF) More States Working to Implement Health Insurance Exchanges, HHS Announces [Official Guidance] Text of Official Corrections to Final HHS Regs on Standards for Reinsurance, Risk Corridors, and Risk Adjustment (PDF) [Guidance Overview] HHS Notice Addresses Rules for Insurers That Meet or Exceed Medical Loss Ratio Standards [Guidance Overview] Recent Case Highlights Split of Authority on Whether Corporate Agreements Can Amend Employee Benefit Plans Resource Page on Implementation of Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios by the States, Updated May 11, 2012 [Official Guidance] Text of Official Corrections to Interim Final CMS Regs for Health Insurance Issuers Implementing Medical Loss Ratio Requirements (PDF) New Online Resource Page by HHS: the 'Health System Measurement Project' [Official Guidance] Eighth Circuit Addresses Standard of Review in Long-Term Disability Insurance Dispute (PDF) ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, May 14, 2012 (PDF) Federal Guidance and Regulation of State Health Benefit Exchanges Reinhart Employee Benefits Update, May 2012 (PDF) [Opinion] Health Care Reform: What Employers Should Be Considering Now [Guidance Overview] Connecticut's Group Health Plan Would Lose Governmental Plan Status by Covering Employees of Non-Profit Contractors The Small Business Tax Credit in the ACA Is Good Business Sense New Jersey Governor Vetoes Health Insurance Exchange Plan Management Issues for State, Partnership and Federally Facilitated Health Insurance Exchanges (PDF) Restricted Health Insurance Enrollment Periods As an Alternative to Individual Mandates [Guidance Overview] Proposed IRS Regs Address the PPACA Comparative Effectiveness Fee (PDF) North Carolina Voters Approve Same-sex Marriage Ban Benefits Administration: To Outsource or Manage In-House? [Guidance Overview] ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, May 7, 2012 Reinhart Employee Benefits Update, April 2012 (PDF) Health Care Reform Timeline for Employers Health Care Reform: What If They Throw the Whole Thing Out? Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 7, 2012 [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance Addresses Upcoming Research Fees on Many Health Plans and Insurers DOL Reports to Congress on Self-Insured Health Plans; Agencies Seek Information on Stop-Loss Coverage [Guidance Overview] IRS Proposed Regs Address Comparative Effectiveness Research Fee on Group Health Plans [Guidance Overview] Proposed IRS Regs Address Fees to Be Paid by Health Insurers and Sponsors of Self-Insured Health Plans [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Academy of Actuaries to CMS on Revised MLR Annual Reporting Form (PDF) [Guidance Overview] CMS Guidance Addresses Medical Loss Ratio Requirement [Guidance Overview] HHS Guidance Addresses 'Minimum Value' Calculation by Employer-Sponsored Health Plans and Reporting Requirements [Guidance Overview] IRS Proposes Methods for Valuing Employer Health Coverage [Guidance Overview] Employers Sponsoring Health Plans Must Pay New Annual Health Plan Fee [Official Guidance] Text of EBSA Advisory Opinion 2012-01A on Allowing Private Employers Into Connecticut's Group Health Plan [Guidance Overview] Research Fees to Be Imposed on Self-Insured Health Plans Beginning October 2012 DOL Updates Interactive Health Plan Compliance Website for Laws Other than Health Care Reform [Opinion] Employers Rolling Up Sleeves on Health Care Cost Containment [Guidance Overview] IRS Mulls Meaning of 'Minimum Value' Coverage [Guidance Overview] IRS Requests Comments on Calculation of 'Minimum Value' and Associated Reporting Requirements Federal Agencies Investigate Self-Funded Health Plans and Stop-Loss Insurance Preparing for the U.S. Supreme Court's Health Care Decision [Guidance Overview] Final Regulations on Health Exchanges (PDF) Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, April 30, 2012 [Guidance Overview] HHS Issues Additional Questions and Answers Guidance on Medical Loss Ratio Requirements [Guidance Overview] New Guidance on Computing Taxes Payable by Health Plan Sponsors and Insurers [Guidance Overview] IRS Describes New Fees Coming Next Year for Group Health Plans [Official Guidance] Text of Request by IRS, DOL, HHS for Information on Stop Loss Insurance (PDF) Clickable Cross-Reference Table for ERISA and United States Code Title 29 Text of EBSA's Annual Report on Self-Insured Group Health Plans, April 2012 Issue (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Proposed IRS Regulations Pertaining to the Disclosure of Return Information to Carry Out Eligibility Requirements for Health Insurance Affordability Programs (PDF) Estimating the 2012 Health Insurance Rebates Under the Medical Loss Ratio Rules 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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