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1.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Dec. 30, 2025
"Group Health Plans: [1] Preventive care for 2025 and 2026 ... [2] [ACA] reporting ... [3] Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 requirements ... Retirement Plans: [1] SECURE 2.0 Act mandatory Roth catch-up contributions for high earners -- January 1, 2026 ... [2] Plan amendment deadlines."
2.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Nov. 2, 2025
"[A] table outlines the new or modified preventive care services that must be covered without cost-sharing beginning January 1, 2026, for calendar year plans."
3.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Oct. 22, 2025
"The deadline by which a plan sponsor must amend its retirement plans depends on the plan type. Here’s a list of the current amendment deadlines by plan type."
4.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Sept. 29, 2025
"As employers and their service providers move into the final stages of implementing the Roth catch-up requirement, [certain] provisions of the final regulations deserve special attention, as they may require changes to the plan document.... The regulations also demonstrate how critical it will be for employers, their legal counsel, and their service providers to coordinate their efforts in order to ensure that the plan document accurately reflects the plan's administration of the Roth catch-up requirement."
5.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Sept. 25, 2025
"Despite vacating provisions in the regulations relating to reproductive health care information, the Purl ruling kept intact regulations at 42 CFR part 2, relating to the protection of SUD Records. This means that, effective February 16, 2026, group health plans must update their policies and Privacy Notices to reflect the stringent protections applicable to certain SUD records[.]"
6.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
July 31, 2025
"Although the original House version of the bill provided for extensive health care changes and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms, the final OBBB contains only a few provisions that affect employee benefit plans.... [1] High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) enhancements ... [2] Increased dependent care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) limits ... [3] Tax-deferred savings accounts for children -- 'Trump Accounts'."
7.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Apr. 8, 2025
"Missouri law will now require most private employers to allow all employees to accrue and use sick leave beginning May 1, 2025. While there are still a variety of legal challenges pending to the law, employers should begin preparing now in case the law goes into effect as written. The first sick leave deadline employers are facing is April 15, 2025."
8.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Mar. 20, 2025
"Integrating a wellness program into a compliant group health plan can satisfy some key requirements of ERISA and the ACA, as well as the HIPAA privacy and security requirements. There are, however, some specific non-discrimination rules that apply expressly to wellness programs."
9.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Feb. 2, 2025
"Calendar year plans must cover the following preventive care services without cost-sharing, effective January 1, 2025: [1] Poliovirus Vaccine (expanded coverage).... [2] Anxiety disorder screenings (expanded coverage).... [3] Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine (new requirement).... [4] Mpox vaccine (new requirement)."
10.  Spencer Fane Link to more items from this source
Oct. 21, 2024
"Many of these annual notices must be provided to participants -- including employees eligible to enroll for coverage in the plan -- and beneficiaries -- including COBRA beneficiaries.... [1] Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) ... [2] Summary Annual Report (SAR) ... [3] Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA) Notice ... [4] Medicare Part D Notice ... [5] Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Notice ... [6] HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices."
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