The final rule adopts essentially unchanged the portions of the proposed rule it covers. However, two of the topics addressed by the proposed rule—group fixed dollar indemnity coverage and expatriate ...

New regulations issued by the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (the “Departments”) have expanded the use of health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”), including ...

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury recently issued proposed regulations that expand and clarify the categories of benefits that qualify as excepted benefits.

Three developments in the second week in February, 2015, remind us that implementation of the Affordable Care Act is a multi-department effort. The first of these is a new guidance on "excepted ...

Key considerations for health plan sponsors in covering family-building benefits (including in vitro fertilization (IVF)) ...

Excepted-benefits health plans provide typically tax-exempt reimbursement to select employees and their eligible dependents for virtually all medical costs not covered by their primary health plans.

Dental, vision, and long-term-care benefits will qualify as excepted benefits under final regulations issued by the IRS (T.D. 9697). Excepted benefits are not subject to certain health reform ...