Mary Lou F.

May 22, 2014

ACA Pay or Play Penalty – When to Begin Tracking Employee Hours

Most of the confusion we encounter regarding the employer shared responsibility or pay or play rules is regarding when to begin tracking employee hours and how […]
May 9, 2014

ACA PAY OR PLAY – ONGOING COMPLIANCE (Part 6 – ACA Series)

We started this ACA blog series with a call to action – do not procrastinate; plan and prepare now. Compliance with the employer shared responsibility mandate […]
May 2, 2014

ACA Pay or Play – Data Collection (Part 5 – ACA Series)

Now we’re really at the beginning of the compliance process. Based on the prior blog posts regarding what data you need for testing and reporting you […]
April 24, 2014

ACA PAY OR PLAY – CALENDAR YEAR VS. PLAN YEAR AND ALL THOSE PERIODS… (Part 4 ACA Series)

If you’ve been reading anything about the ACA regulations you’ve likely stumbled across the terms measurement (or look back) period, administrative period, and stability (or compliance) […]
April 22, 2014

ACA Pay or Play –It’s Not a Small Part of the Law

In Part 1 of our ACA series, we wrote about the importance of NOT procrastinating about – or waiting to see what happens to – ACA’s […]
April 17, 2014

ACA PAY OR PLAY – TESTING (Part 3 ACA Series)

Now that you know from our last blog post that the end result is the report you’ll file with the IRS, how do you determine in […]
April 11, 2014

ACA PAY OR PLAY – REPORTING (Part 2 ACA series)

In our last blog post, ACA Pay or Play – Act Now, we took a look at the big picture of why healthcare reform exists and […]
April 8, 2014

EMPLOYEE CLASSIFICATION-IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE REFORM

An Employer Benefit News article on April 3, 2014 highlighted what they called the “health care reform land mine” in regards to Northwestern University’s student athletes […]
April 3, 2014

Mitigating out-of-pocket prescription drug cost

Last Friday, March 28, 2014 in the Albany Times Union, we came across the article “Shopportunist: Putting cap on medicine cost” which we believe contains very […]
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