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- IRS Discusses Whether Amounts Paid for Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Services Are Medical Care Expenses
- From the May 06, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This information letter responds to an inquiry about whether amounts paid for private umbilical cord blood banking services are medical care expenses under Code Section 213. The information letter explains that the Code defines medical care as the diagnosis, cure, ...
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- IRS Provides Guidance on Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Health Benefits for Children Under Age 27
- From the April 29, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- Recent health care reform legislation generally requires group health plans offering dependent coverage for children to continue providing that coverage for adult children until age 26. (See our Checkpoint Newsstand articles.) The legislation also extends the Code Section 105(b) ...
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- How does GINA limit requests for family medical history under a wellness program offered as part of a group health plan?
- From the April 15, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We would like to offer a voluntary wellness program as part of our company’s self-insured group health plan. The program would request (but not require) employees to complete a health risk assessment questionnaire. Employees who complete ...
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- DOL Webpage on Health Care Reform Provides Useful Links and Resources for Employees and Employers
- From the April 08, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has created a new webpage that contains links to a variety of resources relating to the major health care reform legislation—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)—that became law in March 2010 (see ...
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- Health Care Reform Reconciliation Bill Is Signed Into Law
- From the April 01, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- On March 30, 2010, the President signed into law the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (Reconciliation Act), which makes significant changes to some of the health care reform provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (see ...
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- Health Care Reform Is Signed Into Law, Bringing Major Changes for Employer-Provided Health Coverage
- From the March 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- Historic health care reform legislation was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) brings far-reaching changes for employer-provided health coverage. (As we write this article, Congress is ...
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- DOL Issues New Proposed Regulations on Investment Advice, Without Class Exemption
- From the March 04, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has proposed regulations intended to implement the statutory prohibited transaction exemption for “eligible investment advice arrangements” added by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA). Under the statutory exemption, certain transactions associated with providing investment advice ...
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- Value of Nondependent Domestic Partner's Retiree Coverage Is Taxable to Employee
- From the February 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This private letter ruling addresses the tax treatment of contributions required to pre-fund retiree health coverage under a union-negotiated health plan. The contributions for each employee consisted of (1) mandatory (i.e., nonelective) pre-tax contributions made during ...
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- IRS Discusses Deductibility of Monthly Fee Paid to Alzheimer's Medical Facility
- From the February 18, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This IRS information letter responds to an inquiry about the deductibility of a monthly fee paid to an Alzheimer’s medical facility. The letter explains that the entire cost of medical care, meals, and lodging furnished in an institution ...
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- Tax Court Holds That Sex Reassignment Surgery Expenses Were for Medical Carey
- From the February 11, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- After being diagnosed with a condition known as gender identity disorder (GID), the taxpayer in this case, based on the recommendation of medical care providers, received feminizing hormone therapy, began living as a female, and had sex reassignment surgery. She ...
