Dive summary:
- The Employee Benefits Security Administration, which enforces labor law regarding such matters as health plans, is expanding its efforts to see if employers are complying with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
- The ACA is the healthcare-reform law, and EBSA is going to be asking about details of provisions that include why plans qualify to be grandfathered under previous rules, coverage for employees' adult children, lifetime and annual limits, and how claims and appeals claims are handled.
- Contractors need to be ready to provide more than they had to before, as illustrated in this six-page audit letter that Associated General Contractors obtained to show its members what is changing.
From the article:
EBSA has broadened the list of documents it requests during a compliance review. ...