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Healthcare Reform Resource Center

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Date		HCR Documents
5/15/2012		IRS Issues Proposed Regulations on Research Fees
		The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (Institute) to help patients, clinicians, payers and the public make informed health decisions by advancing comparative effectiveness research. The Institute's research is to be funded, in part, by fees paid by health insurance issuers and sponsors of self-insured health plans.
5/15/2012		More FAQs Issued on Summary of Benefits and Coverage
		The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires health plans and health insurance issuers to provide applicants and enrollees with a concise document providing simple and consistent information about health plan benefits and coverage. This document, which is called a summary of benefits and coverage (SBC), is intended to help health plan consumers better understand the coverage that they have and to help them make easier comparisons when shopping for new coverage.
5/14/2012		IRS Requests Comments on Determining Minimum Value and Related Reporting Requirements
		Effective for 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides premium tax credits to eligible individuals who purchase qualified health plan coverage through a health insurance exchange (Exchange). To qualify for the premium tax credit, an individual cannot be eligible for other minimum essential health coverage, including coverage under an employer-sponsored plan that is affordable to the individual and provides minimum value.
5/9/2012		Healthcare Reform Update May 2012
		This document offers opinions on how Healthcare Reform may turn out in the Supreme Court and fall election. It also speaks to the 2012 implementation issues.
4/12/2012		Supreme Court Hears Healthcare Reform Case
		The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the health care reform law March 26-28, 2012. The Justices heard six hours of oral argument on the law's constitutionality and related issues. This is an extraordinary amount of time for oral argument � most modern court cases only receive one hour of oral argument�and is indicative of the importance of the health care reform law challenges.
2/27/2012		HHS Issues FAQs on Essential Health Benefits
		The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or Affordable Care Act) will require non-grandfathered health insurance plans in the individual and small group markets to cover a comprehensive set of items and services, known as the essential health benefits (EHB) package. This coverage requirement will become effective in 2014.
2/27/2012		The Full Text of the Affordable Care Act
		This is the full text of the Affordable Care Act with amendments. The source of this file is www.healthcare.gov.
2/27/2012		Types of Coverage Subject to W2 Reporting
		The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires employers to report the aggregate cost of employer sponsored group health coverage on employees� Forms W-2. The purpose of the reporting requirement is to provide employees with useful and comparable information on the cost of their health coverage. It does not cause employer provided health coverage to become taxable.
2/10/2012		Final Guidance on Summary of Benefits & Coverage
		On Feb. 9, 2012, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (Departments) released much anticipated final guidance on the requirement for health plans and health insurance issuers to provide a summary of benefits and coverage to applicants and enrollees.
2/6/2012		Health Care Reform: 2012 Compliance Checklist
		Health care reform brings a number of changes for employers and health plans in 2012. As employers prepare to comply with new requirements, they need to be aware of how health care reform will affect them in the coming year.
2/6/2012		IRS Issues Additional Guidance on W2 Reporting
		On Jan. 3, 2012, the IRS issued Notice 2012-9, which replaced Notice 2011-28, and updated the interim technical guidance on the Form W-2 reporting requirement.
2/6/2012		Healthcare Reform - Women's Preventive Care Updated 2/13/2012
		The health care reform law requires health plans to cover certain preventive care services for participants without any cost sharing.
12/15/2011		Supreme Court Will Review HCR in 2012
		A number of legal challenges to the health care reform law have been filed in federal court since the law was passed in March 2010. Nearly all of the challenges have been based on constitutional grounds.
12/15/2011		HCR Developments in 2011
		The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) makes extensive changes to the U.S. health care system with respect to the delivery of health care, consumer protections and coverage options.
12/15/2011		HCR Timeline Updated 2/13/2012
		On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This legislation, along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, makes sweeping changes to the U.S. health care system.