Prepare for 2015’s play-or-pay penalties today: 3 places to start

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We don’t need to remind this audience that the employer mandate was delayed, on July 2, 2013, to January 2015. Many of you were already in detailed discussions with your clients about play-or-pay and can pick back up on those right now. Marathas, who spent time working on the implementation of the Massachusetts health law, says affordability, full-time hours, employee status and nondiscrimination are the first things you should revisit with existing clients or begin discussing with new clients.

“If they haven’t already done so, they need to determine whether their plans will be affordable in 2015. The starts and stops in this law have led many to drop the ball. Many have been slow to pick it up again. Now is the time to do so,” Marathas says.


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