compliance
January 6, 2022
DOL Announces Good Faith Enforcement Standard, Provides Guidance on Compensation Disclosures
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) amended Section 408(b)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to require service providers (including brokers) to disclose direct and indirect compensation to group health plan fiduciaries. Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2021-03 ...
December 21, 2021
Sixth Circuit Lifts Stay of OSHA Emergency Vaccine Mandate for Large Employers
On late Friday December 17, 2021, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, lifting the Fifth Circuit’s earlier stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) ...
December 6, 2021
Compliance Recap | November 2021
November saw quite a bit of activity in the compliance space. Although OSHA’s vaccine-or-test mandate for private employers was issued, it was immediately met with resistance in the form of lawsuits and a stay from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The mandates for federal contractors and ...
November 19, 2021
Departments Issue Interim Final Rule on Group Health Plan Cost and Pricing Disclosure
Read time: 5 minutes On November 17, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Health and Human Services (HHS) (collectively, the “Departments”), with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), issued interim final regulations (IFR) to provide guidance ...
November 10, 2021
What Employers Should Know about the OSHA Vaccine Emergency Temporary Standard
Read time: 30 minutes Federal workplace safety officials just released the mandate-or-test workplace vaccine emergency rule, and employers are sure to have questions. The Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will require ...
November 4, 2021
Compliance Recap | October 2021
October was a relatively quiet month in the compliance space. While we are still waiting for the U.S. government to release the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and guidance on broker compensation disclosures, here are the highlights of happenings in October. ...
October 13, 2021
Compliance Recap | September 2021
September saw a lot of activity in the compliance space, especially coming from the federal government. Vaccine Mandate Guidance Still Pending Vaccine mandates were on everyone’s mind, especially after Delta Airlines announced its $200 monthly surcharge and weekly testing program for ...
October 7, 2021
Departments Issue Guidance on No Surprises Act
On September 30, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), released an interim final rule (IFR) under the No Surprises Act (Act) to help ...
September 20, 2021
Medicare Part D Notices
If your health benefit plan covers any employee, or their covered dependents, who is eligible for Medicare, this applies to you. If you know that your plan does not cover any Medicare eligible individuals (employee or dependent) then you do not need to send this notice. If your medical plan ...
September 8, 2021
Sample Open Enrollment Notices Packet
Including: Important Notice About Your Prescription Drug Coverage and Medicare: Provide this notice by October 14 to all participants and dependents who are or may become eligible for Medicare Part D in the next 12 months if the prescription drug coverage provided by the plan is “creditable.” ...
