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- IRS Issues Chart of Average Small Group Market Premiums for Calculating Small Business Health Care Tax Credit for 2010
- From the May 06, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- Recent health care reform legislation created a new federal income tax credit, which is available to eligible small employers that make nonelective contributions toward their employees’ health insurance premiums (see our Checkpoint Newsstand article). For taxable years beginning before ...
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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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- HHS Requires Data for Its Web Portal From Insurers as Early as May 21, 2010
- From the May 06, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- Recent health care reform legislation requires HHS to create an Internet website, referred to as a “web portal,” through which individuals and small businesses can access information about insurance coverage options available in their State. The web portal ...
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- Interim Final Regulations Address Retiree Reinsurance Provisions of Health Care Reform
- From the May 06, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- Recent health care reform legislation includes a program for the reimbursement of participating plan sponsors who provide health coverage to early retirees (“early retiree reinsurance program”). The law requires the program to be implemented within 90 days of ...
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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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- DoD Issues Final Regulations on TRICARE Incentive Prohibition
- From the April 15, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued final regulations regarding the TRICARE incentive prohibition, which prohibits employers from offering financial or other benefits to TRICARE beneficiaries as incentives not to enroll (or to terminate enrollment) in employer-sponsored health plans ...
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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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- IRS Issues Guidance on New Small Employer Tax Credit
- From the April 08, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed into law in March 2010 (see our Checkpoint Newsstand articles), added a new small employer tax credit for small businesses and tax-exempt organizations that provide health coverage to their employees. ...
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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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- New EFAST2 FAQs Address Email Notification for Electronic Credentials; Midnight Filing Deadline
- From the March 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has added three new questions to its FAQs on EFAST2, the all-electronic filing system required for 2009 plan year filings (due in 2010 for most plans). (For information about other topics addressed in previous EFAST2 FAQs, see ...
