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1. Review the requirements
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2. Identify your ACA fulfillment team
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3. Gather data
tHow many full-time employees your organization employs each month.
tIdentifying information for employees (name, SSN, address).
tThe months that the employee was offered health care coverage.
tThe employees share of the lowest cost monthly premium for self-only minimum value coverage.
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4. Prep the data
Another suggestion, he adds, is to make sure any unique IDs assigned to one employee in one system is not assigned to a different employee in another system. Unique IDs need to be truly unique, otherwise you could have a huge mess, and risk a security breach, he says.
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5. Track monthly health care coverage information
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