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BenefitsLink Health & Welfare Plans Newsletter
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[Guidance Overview]
Amendment to Affordable Care Act's Claims and Appeals Rules (PDF)
"Simultaneous with publication of the amendment, the Agencies also published the following items relating to the ACA's claims and appeals rules: Model Notice of Adverse Benefit Determination, and an 'Appeal Filing Form;' Model Notice of Final Internal Adverse Benefit Determination, and 'External Review Filing Form;' Model Notice of Final External Review Decision; and Updated List of State 'Consumer Assistance Programs'"
(Groom Law Group, Chartered)
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IRS Reaches Agreement Regarding Millennium Multiple Employer Welfare Benefit Plan
"The Millennium Plan is presently the subject of a bankrup.tcy proceeding . . . . Under the agreement reached with the IRS and the terms of the Order Confirming Modified Plan dated June 16, 2011, the Millennium Plan will terminate its operations, liquidate its assets and distribute approximately $80 mil.lion in assets to individual participants."
(U.S. Internal Revenue Service via BenefitsLink.com)
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Utah Health Exchange Is Geared to Small Business Employees
"Most of [Utah's] small business population was challenged in offering healthcare insurance to their employees, so we felt that was our number one priority. We built a market around that, and we refer to it as the 'defined contribution' market."
(Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
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Ex-Spouses, Other Ineligibles, on the Company Health Care Plan
"Employers looking to cut health-care costs just might find a way to do it without having to embrace such pesky measures as raising prescription drug co-payments or narrowing the field of in-network doctors. 'We're seeing that 2 percent to 5 percent of heath-care expenditures go toward insuring employee 'dependents' who really aren't eligible dependents,'"
(Bloomberg L.P.)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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Economy Hurts Employee Benefits in Three-Quarters of Firms
"Seventy-seven percent of surveyed human resource professionals said in 2011 that the economy negatively affected benefits to some or to a large extent, an increase from 72% in 2010, SHRM's 2011 Employee Benefits Research Report showed."
(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business)
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The Perk Bubble Is Growing as Tech Booms Again
"Some Web start-ups are partying like it's 1999. . . . Companies say the fierce competition for talent among start-ups has necessitated extraordinary perks meant to attract and retain employees."
(The Wall Street Journal)
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