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Health Reform Resource

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  • Change in tax treatment for over-age dependent coverage
  • Accounting impact of change in Medicare retiree drug subsidy tax treatment
  • Early retiree medical reinsurance
  • Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” beneficiary rebate
  • Break time/private room for nursing moms

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  • No lifetime dollar limits on essential health benefits
  • Restricted annual dollar limits on essentail health benefits, phased amounts until 2014
  • No pre-existing condition limitations for enrollees up to age 191  and no recissions
  • No health FSA/HRA/HSA reimbursement for non-prescribed drugs
  • Increased penalties for non-qualified HSA distributions
  • Additional standards for new or “non-grandfathered” health plans, including preventive care in network with no cost-sharing appeal and external review, provider choice and non-discrimination provisions for insured plans
  • Income-based Medicare Part D premiums
  • Pharmaceutical importers and manufacturers’ fees start
  • Medicare, Medicare Advantage benefit and payment reforms
  • Insurers subject to medical loss ratio rules

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  • Employers to distribute uniform summary of benefits and coverage (SBC) to participants (deadlines vary with group of recipients)
  • 60-day advance notice of mid-year material modifications to SBC content
  • Form W-2 reporting for health coverage (track in 2012 for W-2 form provided in early 2013)
  • Coverage for additional women’s preventive care services5

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  • $2,500 per plan year health FSA contribution cap (plan years on or after January 1, 2013)
  • Comparative effectiveness group health plan fees first due
  • Annual dollar limits on essential health benefits cannot be lower than $2 million
  • Employers notify employees about exchanges
  • Medical device manufacturers’ fees start
  • Higher Medicare payroll tax on wages exceeding $200,000/individual; $250,000/couples
  • Change in Medicare retiree drug subsidy tax treatment takes effect
  • Health Insurance exchanges initial open enrollment period

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  • Health insurance exchanges
  • Individual coverage mandate
  • Financial assistance for exchange coverage of lower-income individuals
  • States Medicaid expansion (possibly only some states)
  • Employer shared responsibility
  • Dependent coverage to age 26 for any covered employee’s child
  • No annual dollar limits on essential health benefits
  • No pre-existing condition limits
  • No waiting period over 90 days
  • Wellness limit increase allowed
  • Health insurance industry fees
  • Additional standards for  non-grandfathered health plans, including limits on out-of-pocket maximums, provider nondiscrimination, and coverage of routine medical costs of clinical trial participants
  • Small market, non-grandfathered insured plans must cover essential health benefits with limited deductibles (initially $2,000/individual, $4,000/family), using a form of community rating
  • Insurers must apply guaranteed issue and renewability to non-grandfathered plans of all sizes
  • Auto enrollment sometime after 2014

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  • Temporary reinsurance fees first due in late 2014/early 2015
  • Additional employee-specific reporting and disclosure of 2014 coverage

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  • 40% excise tax on “high cost” or Cadillac coverage

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