On June 21, 2010, Interim Final Regulations implementing major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”), including provisions relating to preexisting conditions, lifetime and annual limitations on benefits, rescissions on coverage, dollar limitations on benefits, and claims’ appeals, were issued by the U.S. Departments’ of Health and Human Services, Labor and [...]

On June 14, 2010, guidance explaining how group health plans are “grandfathered” from some healthcare changes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how grandfathered status may be lost was issued by the U.S. Departments Health and Human Services and Treasury.

A grandfathered health plan is an insured or self-insured health plan in [...]

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires employers with 200 or more full-time employees to automatically enroll all new full-time employees