Employee Benefits Insurance

Back to the future! If you were to go back to 1978 when cafeteria plans were born, then fast forward the tape to now and apply state-of-the-art technology, you would see that we’ve created. We now have an electronic cafeteria plan called an insurance exchange or marketplace. Here is some updated information on what is coming.

Are you a small business? Then, you may be interested in a SHOP. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs each state that chooses to operate an Exchange to also establish a Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). This blog post is a review of some recent changes to the regulations about SHOPs.

Last Friday we got the fun news that the Obama Administration had released five regulations on various provisions in the health reform law. In case you did not have time to sift through them over the past week, here are the highlights.