Your summary of benefits and coverage (SBC) empowers eligible employees with essential information about
the medical benefits you offer.
Properly distributing your SBC ensures compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and avoids potential
penalties. Below is a simple guide to help you satisfy your SBC distribution obligations.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released Revenue Procedure 2025-32, which increases the health FSA salary reduction contribution.
Open enrollment is a critical time for employers and employees. Learn how to prepare your employees for open enrollment in an efficient way.
Helping employees navigate the complexities of open enrollment can be challenging for even the savviest small business owners and managers.
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Choosing the right voluntary benefits for your employees can improve utilization and ROI. Learn which voluntary benefits may appeal to your employees and how to communicate them effectively.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2025-25, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2026 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility provisions and premium tax credit program.
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) ensures that individuals with mental health and substance use disorders have the same access to treatment as those seeking care for medical and surgical conditions. But achieving parity is complex. This article summarizes past and current legislative efforts to close the gap between mental health/substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits.
On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated a significant portion of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (“Final Rule”), which was implemented on April 24, 2024, on a nationwide basis.
On July 3, 2025, Congress passed a reconciliation bill (the “Reconciliation Act”) previously named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but subsequently redesigned “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.”
