Anne Tyler Hamby

Starting in 2015, employer reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act will take effect. But are HR and benefit departments up to the task? Here’s a health regulation primer for all employers to review.

In guidance issued on March 18, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor: • extended the enforcement grace period previously provided for some of the new requirements relating to internal claims and appeals that are imposed on group health plans and health insurers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and • relaxes in some cases the prior requirement that plans and insurers must be working in good faith to implement the new requirements in order to take advantage of the grace period.