Benefits Bulletin
- Quick Compliance Check
- IRS Health Savings Accounts Limits for
2009
- House Approves Genetic Non-Discrimination
Act
- February 29, 2008 is the deadline for RX
notification to Medicare Part D eligibles. CMS requires notice
to be filed electronically.
- IRS issues new proposed regulations that
consolidate, update and replace existing proposed regulations
and interim guidance for cafeteria plans.
- Dominion Benefits develops a Wellness
Guide for use by clients who are considering implementing a
wellness program.
- IRS adjusts three major amounts for
administration of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and
high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) in 2009.
- Medicare Part D – Creditable
Coverage Reporting Update: CMS requires that employers provide
electronic confirmation of the creditable (or non-creditable)
status of their prescription drug plans.
- HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices for
Protected Health Information deadline approaching. April 14,
2007 marks the next required deadline notice for clients that
have not sent out a notice since April 2004. Sample notice
provided.
- Now is a good time to revisit your
benefit goals for 2007. Consider these items and suggestions to
get your benefits off to a good start.
- Congress passes sweeping Health Savings
Accounts (HSAs) changes. These potential regulatory changes may
make a significant difference in the evaluation and feasibility
of HSAs and Qualified High Deductible Plans. The anticipated
changes include allowance of an HSA contribution beyond the
plan deductible to the federal limit, more flexibility in
rollovers of FSA/HRA/IRA and elimination of other restrictions.
- Important Dates for Employers
(including Medicare Part D info)
(including Medicare Part D info)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and
Flexible Spending Account Updates
- Medicare Credible Coverage Guidance
- CMS website has been updated and includes
new model notices
- HIPAA Security Standards Requirements
- Uniformed Services Employment and
Reemployment Rights Act
- Medicare D Update – CMS
Notification Process Now Clarified
- Filings must be electronic
- New deadline for filing is now March 31,
2006
- Medicare Part D: How It Impacts Your Plan
- Compliance
Alert – Medicare Part D
Dominion Benefits offers web seminars (in August and September) to educate employers about their responsibilities under the new rules for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefits. THESE RULES APPLY TO ALL EMPLOYERS (Even those without retiree health coverage!)
Dominion Benefits offers web seminars (in August and September) to educate employers about their responsibilities under the new rules for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefits. THESE RULES APPLY TO ALL EMPLOYERS (Even those without retiree health coverage!)
- Annual reports for calendar year benefit
plans are due July 31. Learn more about ERISA filing and
disclosure requirements for your welfare (health, life, and
disability plans), and avoid costly penalties (and further
complications) with self-correction before a Department of
Labor (DOL) investigation
- Dominion Benefits has been in
communication with our Flex Plan administrators regarding the
new regulations. All seem to be in the mode of evaluating the
regulations and the needed software and SPD enhancements to
implement a change. We expect more information regarding client
options for plan changes sometime this summer.
- Click here to read the Mintz Levin
discussion of IRS and Treasury Extension of the FSA
Use-It-Or-Lose-It Rule
- Click here to read the Mintz Levin discussion of HIPAA Security
Rule for Employer Group Health Plans (you will leave our site, click BACK to return)
- HIPAA Security Standards
- Read Mintz Levin advisory of Working
Families Tax Relief Act issues and new regulations
- Peter Marathas of Mintz Levin will speak
at Employee’s Benefits seminar scheduled for January 26
- Three Physician Groups Terminate from
Anthem Networks
- Working Families Tax Relief Act
- Employee’s Benefits seminar
scheduled for January 26
- Dominion Benefits Compensation Issues
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Our Position
Our Position
- Dominion Benefits’ Fee Policy
- Dominion Benefits Client Seminar
- New Rules On Overtime Take Effect Next
Month
- FSAs
- DOL Issues Final COBRA Notice Regulations
- Dominion Benefits Joins Benefit Advisors
Network
- Confirming Our Fee Policy
- Save Lives Now! Initiative
- HIPAA Deadline Looming
- New Anthem ID Cards
- UnitedHealthcare Acquires MAMSI
- Health Savings Accounts
- HIPAA Compliance Update
- Carrier Changes
- Flexible Spending Accounts
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