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Recent Federal Laws, Regulations, Guidance and
Court Cases Affecting Group Benefits
Speaker John Garner Wednesday , August 12th
0100 PM EST
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Upcoming Webinar of John
Garner Recent Federal Laws, Regulations,
Guidance and Court Cases Affecting Group
Benefits Wednesday , August 12th
0100 PM EST Overview Numerous recent
developments affect group benefit plans,
including new federal law enforcement,
regulations, other guidance and court cases.
Many of the new developments relate to health
care reform laws. The discussion of health care
reform will begin with a review of recent and
pending court challenges to health care reform.
The webinar will also cover recent guidance
related to preventive services, transitional
relief from the employer mandate, what
constitutes minimum value, measurement periods,
employer history reporting, cost-sharing limits,
excepted benefits, rules for the Territories,
exchanges, waiting periods, flexible spending
accounts, summaries of benefits and coverage,
reference-based pricing and individual health
insurance policies. Other topics covered by this
webinar will include cost-of-living adjustments,
mental health parity, HITECH compliance, same-sex
marriage arguments, cafeteria plan elections,
COBRA medical insurance, delay of the requirement
to obtain health plan ID numbers, challenges to
wellness plans by the Equal Opportunity
Employment Commission and the status of the
Social Security Disability Insurance trust fund.
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• Upcoming Webinar of John Garner
• Recent Federal Laws, Regulations, Guidance and
  Court Cases Affecting Group Benefits
• Wednesday , August 12th 0100 PM EST
• Why Should You Attend
• The legislative and regulatory environment
  related to group benefit plans is constantly
  changing. The
• penalties associated with these changes are such
  that what you dont know can hurt you.
  Significant
• new penalties apply, starting in 2015, for large
  employers that do not offer all full-time
  employees
• minimum essential coverage. Lesser penalties
  apply if minimum essential coverage is offered,
  but it is
• not affordable or does not meet minimum value
  standards. Employers with 50-99 employees may
• qualify for transitional relief in 2015 however,
  there are requirements that must be met in order
  to
• qualify. If employers do not meet those
  requirements, they will be subject to penalties.
  Furthermore,
• the regulators have changed the rules related to
  minimum essential coverage and some plans that
  were
• thought to meet the requirements no longer do so.
  It is now clear that all large employers must
• establish measurement and stability periods, even
  if they do not have any variable-hour employees.
  All

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Upcoming Webinar of John
Garner Recent Federal Laws, Regulations,
Guidance and Court Cases Affecting Group
Benefits Wednesday , August 12th
0100 PM EST Areas Covered in the webinar This
webinar will discuss the latest developments
related to health care reform, including the
penalties that will apply to large employers,
starting in 2015. The penalties will apply to
even more employers in 2016 and this webinar will
describe the differences between the rules for
2015 and 2016. In order to describe the
penalties, the webinar will define such terms as
applicable large employer, full-time employee,
minimum essential coverage, minimum value
coverage and affordability. This webinar
will also describe the rules employers with 50-99
employees must follow in order to qualify for
transitional relief from the penalties in 2015.
This webinar will also describe the rules related
to measurement, administrative and stability
periods that apply for new hires who are
part-time, seasonal or variable hour employees
and the measurement, administrative and stability
periods for ongoing employees. This webinar will
also describe the rules related to waiting
periods and orientation periods. This webinar
will also describe the new reporting requirements
that apply to employers and self-funded health
plans. The webinar will also discuss the latest
guidance related to employer payments
for individual health insurance policies. In
accordance with a Supreme Court ruling, certain
privately held corporations are exempt from the
requirement to cover all oral contraceptives.
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• Upcoming Webinar of John Garner
• Recent Federal Laws, Regulations, Guidance and
  Court Cases Affecting Group Benefits
• Wednesday , August 12th 0100 PM EST
• Learning Objective
• To understand the latest developments under
  health care reform
• To understand the latest guidance related to
  cafeteria plan elections
• To understand the current challenges to wellness
  programs
• To be able to create an action plan for
  compliance
• Who Will Benefit
• Any employer that sponsors a group benefits and
  any vendor that acts on behalf of health plans.
  Some of these titles include
• Vice President of Human Resources

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Upcoming Webinar of John Garner Recent
Federal Laws, Regulations, Guidance and Court
Cases Affecting Group Benefits
Wednesday , August 12th 0100 PM
EST Level Intermediate Speaker profile Mr.
Garner is Chief Compliance Officer at Bolton
Company. John Garner is literally âœthe guy
who wrote the book.â