[Guidance Overview]
June 30 Amendment Deadline Looms for Cafeteria Plans and HRAs
"The employer may simply amend the plan document and employee communications to provide that all expenses for medicine and drugs (with the exception of insulin) will not be reimbursed without a prescription. . . . In the alternative, the employer may amend those documents to provide that no expenses for OTC medicine and drugs will be reimbursed, even if the participant obtains a prescription."
(McGuireWoods)
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[Guidance Overview]
Court Decision Clears the Air (Somewhat) for Wellness Programs (PDF)
"Earlier this spring, a federal district court in Florida handed down a ruling that, if followed by other courts, provides employers with some breathing room under the ADA. In this advisory, we summarize the court's ruling and briefly discuss its potential impact on the design of employer-sponsored wellness programs."
(Alston+Bird LLP)
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HHS Encourages Plan Participants to Learn About Prevention—Free Preventive Care and Services
"[U]nder the Affordable Care Act, you and your family may be eligible for important preventive services—for free. If you or your family enrolled in a new health plan on or after September 23, 2010, then your plan is required to cover certain recommended preventive services without charging you a copay, co-insurance or deductible."
(healthcare.gov, operated by U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
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More American Workers Taking Time Off to Care for Aging Parents
"The percentage of Americans who provide care for their aging parents has tripled since 1994, according to a new study. . . . [C]aregivers lose an estimated $3 tril.lion in wages, pension and Social Security benefits when they take time off from work to help their aging parents . . . .
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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[Opinion]
Corporations Profit from Health Care Waste
"Americans spent $1,059 per capita on administrative costs compared with only $307 spent in (Can.ada)—about $225 bil.lion per year. The corporate geese are going to spare no effort to hold on to this golden egg."
(Baltimore Sun via Physicians for a National Health Program)
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[Opinion]
Why ObamaCare Is Losing in The Courts
"The government's lawyers, recognizing [a] fundamental constitutional reality, have tried to rewrite the law so that it can withstand judicial scrutiny. They have claimed that the individual mandate is a tax, despite common sense, judicial precedent, and numerous statements to the contrary by the law's sponsors and President Obama."
(The Wall Street Journal)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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Press Releases
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