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The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know (A Q&A Guide), 2nd Edition

The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know | Compliance, Deadlines, Coverage Mandates

Thompson and AHC Media have partnered to offer The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know (A Q&A Guide), 2nd Edition.

The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know (A Q&A Guide), 2nd Edition clearly, succinctly and authoritatively answers more than 500 questions that real-world professionals are asking now. This unique new product will help employers and their service providers understand and comply with dates, deadlines and coverage mandates. And beyond that, it will discuss practical issues that will help employers and their service providers avoid the pitfalls involved in implementing reform.

    New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know (A Q&A Guide), 2nd Edition is:
    • Easy to use. Conveniently arranged by topic to help you quickly find the answers you're looking for.
    • Focused on YOUR specific needs. Answers 500 questions most often asked by HR and benefit professionals. No wasted time wading through irrelevant provisions.
    • Written in plain English, so you won't have to dig through 2,100 pages of statute and hundreds of pages of rules.
    • Covers the interplay of health care reform with federal laws such as COBRA, HIPAA, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Michelle's Law.

    No matter which Health Care Reform topic you're concerned with, this helpful reference has you covered...
    • Coordinating enhanced claims and appeals rules with existing federal and state requirements
    • Implementing new coverage obligations for employees' older dependents
    • Determining the kinds of preventive care and screening employer plans must cover
    • Complying with reporting and disclosure requirements - including IRS and exchange notification
    • Interpreting what the play-or-pay mandates mean for employers
    • Analyzing the severity of penalties for employer "noncompliance"
 

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The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know (A Q&A Guide), 2nd Edition clearly, succinctly and authoritatively answers more than 500 questions that real-world professionals are asking now. This unique new product will help employers and their service providers understand and comply with dates, deadlines and coverage mandates. And beyond that, it will discuss practical issues that will help employers and their service providers avoid the pitfalls involved in implementing reform.

The new Guide provides you with the most up-to-date information on issues such as:
  • compliance with requirements such as elimination of annual and lifetime limits and expanded dependent coverage;
  • safe harbors, including grandfathered status, waivers for "mini-med" plans and limits on non-essential benefits;
  • how long-term legal challenges on the constitutionality of the individual mandate and the reform law as a whole affect your immediate reform obligations;
  • and more!

The book will also address new pay-or-play requirements and insurance purchasing exchanges.
 

Format and Frequency

  • One-volume manual.

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Authors and Editors

James R. Napoli, Esq., is a senior counsel in the Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Center, resident in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP. Recognized by US Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in his field, Jim maintains an active controversy practice that includes advising clients on ERISA fiduciary matters and related litigation, as well as government compliance. He partners with clients to assist them in the design, implementation and maintenance of their employee benefit programs.



Paul M. Hamburger is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP. Mr. Hamburger has more than 25 years of experience in advising employers and administrators, and is the author of numerous articles and publications on COBRA and other employee benefits issues affecting pension and welfare plans. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Hamburger is author and contributing editor of Mandated Health Benefits — The COBRA Guide; and author of the Pension Plan Fix-It Handbook and Guide to Assigning and Loaning Benefit Plan Money, all published by Thompson Publishing Group.


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