Nick, Amanda, and Dan discuss excise penalties and how they apply to the various provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Nick, Amanda, and Dan discuss the expansion of the required coverage of COVID-19 tests by group health plans to tests that can be purchased over the counter. 

Happy holidays from Coffee & Compliance! We'll be back in the new year with new episodes and new topics.

Nick, Amanda, and Dan discuss the different tasks and considerations that plan sponsors need to take care of to close out 2021 cleanly while putting their best foot forward in 2022.  

Nick, Amanda, and Dan discuss the exotic topic of ERISA preemption, how it’s played out with state laws in the past, and where it could go in the future.

Nick, Amanda, and Dan discuss the various notice requirements with which employers and plan sponsors have to comply.

Nick, Amanda, and Dan discuss the look-back measurement method under the ACA’s employer mandate and all of the fun that comes with using the look-back measurement method.  

Amanda and Nick talk about the surprises and the commonplace of being a regulatory and legislative specialist in the health and welfare space.

Nick, Ben, and Amanda discuss the mix of transparency rules that employers are dealing with, from the Trump administration’s final transparency rules that are tied to the ACA to the No Surprises Act.

Ben and Nick talk about Ben’s impending retirement and the things that he’s seen over the last three decades.