Sushma Tripathi
Vice President, Workforce Planning and Benefits Consulting
“If benefits are buried five clicks deep on your HR system, no one will find them.”
“Since nothing has changed about the employer mandate or ACA reporting, employers need to stay the course with ACA compliance.”
Ellen: For now, compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains as it was in 2017, although the penalties for non-compliance with the employer mandate are now higher:
Since nothing has changed about the employer mandate or ACA reporting, employers need to stay the course with ACA compliance.
Going forward, significant health care reform legislation at the federal level is unlikely in the near future. Individual market stabilization measures may be implemented, but they are not expected to affect the rules that apply to large employers.
State legislatures are considering a wide variety of bills, including efforts to implement state-based individual mandates, various provisions aimed at stabilizing the individual insurance market and potential employer penalties if employees receive Medicaid benefits, which is not a factor under ACA rules.
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