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- CMS Proposes Policy and Technical Changes to Medicare Part D Regulations, Including COB and MSP Provisions
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- CMS has proposed policy and technical changes to the regulations for the Medicare Part D program that are intended to clarify participation requirements, strengthen beneficiary protections, improve payment rules, and implement new policy. As discussed below, some of the proposed ...
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- Insurer May Consider Relevant Nonmedical Information in Deciding Disability Claim
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The employee in this case argued that her claim for LTD benefits was improperly denied by the plan’s insurer. After her employer declined to renew her employment contract, the employee filed an LTD claim contending that she could ...
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- Plan Administrator Cannot Consider Motivation for Participants' Divorces When Determining Status of QDRO
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In this case, a plan administrator sought to recover lump sum benefits that a pension plan paid pursuant to QDROs that the administrator claimed were the result of “sham” divorces. According to the administrator, the plan participants—...
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- Employer That Did Not Comply With Health Plan's COBRA Notice Requirements Is Not Entitled to Stop-Loss Reimbursement
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- This case involved employees who incurred large health care expenses while on approved 90-day leaves of absence. The employer sought reimbursement for the excess expenses under the stop-loss policy issued in connection with its self-funded health plan. ...
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- Infant Formula for Healthy Baby Was Not a Medical Care Expense
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In this private letter ruling, the IRS concluded that infant formula for the healthy baby of a woman who could not breastfeed due to a double mastectomy was not a medical care expense under Code Section 213(d). As support, ...
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- How do we calculate the maximum nontaxable discount we can give on services to employees when we also provide discounts to customers?
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company uses the qualified employee discount rules to offer employees nontaxable discounts on company services. We also provide our customers with discounts that vary depending on the customer’s size and certain other factors (for example, whether ...
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- 2010 Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Dollar Limits and Thresholds for Retirement Plans Make Very Few Changes From 2009
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has announced the 2010 cost-of-living adjustments applicable to the dollar limits and thresholds for retirement plans. Most of the limits remain unchanged from 2009 because the procedures for making annual adjustments do not allow the limits ...
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- 2010 Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Transportation Benefits, Adoption Assistance, and More
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has released the 2010 cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for a wide variety of tax benefit limits, including limits relating to qualified transportation fringe benefits, adoption assistance, dependent care assistance programs (DCAPs), and Archer MSAs. Qualified Transportation Fringe ...
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- Court Holds That QDRO Controls Determination of Life Insurance Beneficiaries Because Welfare Plan QDROs Are Not Preempted by ERISA
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In this case, a deceased employee’s third wife and the children of his first wife all claimed a right to the employee’s group life insurance benefits. The claim of the children was based on a state ...
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- Requiring Employees to Complete Health Risk Assessments in Order to Receive HRA Reimbursements Violates the ADA
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- An EEOC informal discussion letter discusses whether an employer’s requirement that employees complete a health risk assessment in order to receive medical expense reimbursements from the employer’s health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) violates the ADA. The assessment ...
