Have you been asleep for a while, like Rip Van Winkle, and just waking up to learn about health care reform? Or just not been interested in watching the minutiae of health care reform? Or have you just become responsible for health care reform compliance? We have plenty of posts about what you need to know, …
Health Care Reform FAQs Address Women’s Preventive Services
March 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
As we discussed in an earlier post, non-grandfathered group health plans must cover certain women’s preventive services without cost-sharing for plan years beginning on or after August 1, 2012 (which would be January 1, 2013 for calendar-year plans). Several of the FAQs in the recently released 12th set of …
Looking Ahead to 2013: Coverage of Women’s Preventive Services
October 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
With 2013 right around the corner, one new requirement that will be in effect on January 1 for calendar-year non-grandfathered group health plans is the coverage of certain women’s preventive services without cost-sharing. The coverage requirement is effective for plan years beginning on or after August 1, …
New Guidance on Preventive Services for Women
August 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
The agencies have kicked off August with headline-grabbing guidance detailing the first-dollar preventive services that non-grandfathered group health plans must provide for women. The list of women’s preventive services was developed by the Institute of Medicine and adopted by the Health Resources and Services …
First Dollar Preventive Care Requirements Create Complexity
December 3, 2010 4 Comments
As we have discussed in prior posts, health reform requires group health plans (other than grandfathered plans) to cover certain preventive health services without any cost sharing for plan years beginning on or after September 23, 2010. At first glance, this seemed like a fairly easy rule for most health plans …