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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plans - design 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 Individual Insurance Benefits Becoming Available Under Health Care Reform Would Have Cut Out-Of-Pocket Spending In 2001-08 [Opinion] USCCB Submits Comments on Proposed HHS Rulemaking, Urges Re-Opening of Final Rule Defining Mandate, Exemption [Official Guidance] Form W-2 Reporting of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage: IRS Informational Page Updated May 2, 2012 DOL Begins Enforcing the ACA Through Plan Audits Is a 'Simple Cafeteria Plan' Right for Your Company? [Official Guidance] Text of General CCIIO Guidance on Federally-Facilitated Health Exchanges (PDF) More States Working to Implement Health Insurance Exchanges, HHS Announces [Guidance Overview] FAQs on Summaries of Benefits and Coverage Address Electronic Distribution and Coverage Example Calculator [Guidance Overview] DOL, HHS and Treasury Guidance on SBC Requirements Provides Compliance Exceptions During First Year [Guidance Overview] Recent Case Highlights Split of Authority on Whether Corporate Agreements Can Amend Employee Benefit Plans [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice 2012-31 Addresses 'Minimum Value' Determination for Employer-Sponsored Health Plans (PDF) Federal Guidance and Regulation of State Health Benefit Exchanges Arizona Now Allowing Some Religious Employers' Health Plans to Opt Out of Contraceptive Drug Coverage Mandate President's Support of Same-Sex Marriage Has No Legal Effect on Employers' Decisions to Offer Benefits to Workers' Domestic Partners Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Cause 'Hours Lock'? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Many Businesses Offer Health Benefits to Same-Sex Couples Ahead of Laws Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 14, 2012 [Guidance Overview] Preauthorization of Surgical Procedure Not Covered by the Plan Was Not a Fiduciary Breach [Guidance Overview] Connecticut's Group Health Plan Would Lose Governmental Plan Status by Covering Employees of Non-Profit Contractors [Official Guidance] Agencies Revise Summary of Benefits and Coverage Template and , Sample Completed SBC, and Coverage Example Calculations [Official Guidance] Affordable Care Act Implementation FAQs -- Set 9 -- The Summary of Benefits and Coverage Trend in Massachusetts Experience: Small Employers Moving to Less Generous Health Insurance Plans Illinois House Votes to Require Former State Employees to Pay Part of Health Care Premiums for First Time Plan Management Issues for State, Partnership and Federally Facilitated Health Insurance Exchanges (PDF) Wellness Programs Credited with Keeping Eau Claire City Employee Insurance Costs Down Bill Introduced to Make Health Care a Right in New York State Restricted Health Insurance Enrollment Periods As an Alternative to Individual Mandates Couples Retiring in 2012 Will Need $240,000 to Pay Medical Expenses Throughout Retirement Employee Benefits Are Good for Employers, Too North Carolina Voters Approve Same-sex Marriage Ban [Guidance Overview] ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, May 7, 2012 Essential Health Benefit Packages Under Health Care Reform Have Employers Wary [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice Requests Comments on Minimum Value and Reporting Requirements for Group Health Plans DOL Ruling Puts Kibosh on Connecticut's Idea for Pooling Private and Public Employers' Health Risk DOL Reports to Congress on Self-Insured Health Plans; Agencies Seek Information on Stop-Loss Coverage [Guidance Overview] Guidance Addresses Minimum Value for Employer Plans, Information Returns, and Exchange Eligibility Determinations 'Accountable Care Organizations' Could Have Medicare Muscle to Transform the Health System AHIP Says Health Insurers Will Continue to Innovate Health Care Law Creates Financial Incentives for Employers to Drop Health Coverage [Guidance Overview] HHS Guidance Addresses 'Minimum Value' Calculation by Employer-Sponsored Health Plans and Reporting Requirements [Official Guidance] Text of EBSA Advisory Opinion 2012-01A on Allowing Private Employers Into Connecticut's Group Health Plan DOL Updates Interactive Health Plan Compliance Website for Laws Other than Health Care Reform [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) Mental Health Spending By Private Insurance: Implications for The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act [Guidance Overview] Employer Reporting under Health Reform: How Much Is Too Much, the IRS Wants to Know [Official Guidance] Text of Request by IRS, DOL, HHS for Information on Stop Loss Insurance (PDF) What's It Take to Be a 'Bronze' Health Plan Under the Affordable Care Act? Text of EBSA's Annual Report on Self-Insured Group Health Plans, April 2012 Issue (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of CCIIO Bulletin: Verification of Access to Employer-Sponsored Coverage (PDF) DOL Issues Second Annual Health Care Reform Report on Self-Insured Plans [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice 2012-31: Minimum Value of an Employer-Sponsored Health Plan (PDF) Obamacare Collapse Would Put Employers Back in Charge of Controlling Health Costs [Guidance Overview] New Michigan Motorcycle Helmet Law Could Impact Self-Funded Group Health Plans Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends in Access and Coverage, 1997-2010 (PDF) Report on State Employee Health Benefits, Updated April 23, 2012 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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