Recently, The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released guidance on the application process to obtain a Health Plan Identifier (“HPID”). A HPID is an all-numeric, 10-digit identification number requirement for many HIPAA-covered health plans. HPIDs will be used in all HIPAA standard transactions, like the payment of health care claims, claim status checks, health plan eligibility confirmations and premium payments. The …Read More

Beginning in 2015, applicable large employers that do not offer affordable minimum value health coverage to their full time employees will be subject to the employer shared responsibility penalty under the Internal Revenue Code. This applies to large employers, with 50 or more full-time employees. But what exactly constitutes a full-time employee? It sounds like an obvious thing, but it can get exceedingly murky when you have contract workers. …Read More

A recent study by Littler Mendelson showed that although those in charge of human resource management remain concerned about the Affordable Care Act, their biggest fear has now become increased regulations by the federal government.
According to HR Morning, some of these fears might be due to the added regulations this year having to do with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), along with increased monitoring of employee/contractor …Read More