Congress approves final tax reform bill, handing Trump year-end victory

The House gave the final stamp of approval Wednesday to a sweeping tax reform package, handing President Trump his first major legislative victory and most Americans a tax cut starting next year. Read more.

Aetna AFA Expectations

The good news is AFA is a great product and helping many brokers and small employers meet benefit and financial goals. Read more.

UPMC Health Plan December Billing

As communicated previously, a number of your clients received $0 invoices in the month of November for their December 2017 coverage. Read more.

Leg Reg Review #39 - 12/18/2017

On December 15, Governor Wolf signed House Bill 1388 (Irvin-R-Mifflin/Centre/Huntington) into law. Read more.

House Republicans Release Legislation to Temporarily Delay ACA Taxes

On Tuesday, Republicans from the House Ways and Means Committee introduced five bills to repeal or delay ACA taxes, including the Cadillac/excise tax, health insurance tax (HIT) and medical device tax. Read more.

Insurer Humana Pushes Deeper Into Delivery Of Health Care

Humana will buy part of Kindred Healthcare's home health business, the latest example of a health insurer growing more involved in the delivery of care on top of handling the bills for it. Read more.

Senate OKs tax reform package, sends bill back to House for final vote

The U.S. Senate passed the most sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws in more than three decades early Wednesday, all but ensuring the bill will soon become law. Read more.

How the GOP tax bill could affect small business 401(k)s

Retirement plan sponsors will be happy to note that many of the proposed changes to defined contribution plans that were discussed early on as part of the tax reform debate were excluded from the final bill, but the bill does include a handful of items that could affect retirement plan sponsors. Read more.

Tax bill guts unpopular ‘Obamacare’ insurance mandate

Republicans didn’t get their wish to repeal former President Barack Obama’s health care law, but the tax bill barreling toward a final vote in Congress guts its most unpopular provision, the requirement that virtually all Americans carry health insurance. Read more.

Few immediate ripples seen from merger of Catholic health systems

Part of its name may change but CHI St. Joseph Children's Health in Lancaster County plans to continue its mission after its nonprofit parent merges with another Catholic health system. Read more.

1/24 The Advantages of Reference Based Pricing

With the ever-increasing group health rates, many employers are faced with difficult decisions on how to maintain quality coverage without going broke. Read more.

Health Care Reform Webinar

Since the passage of the ACA in 2010 and the recent passage of the AHCA through the House and the failed Senate votes on the BCRA and the HCFA (Skinny Repeal), it's important to stay informed so you can better serve your clients in the group health and under 65 individual markets.  The weekly Health Care Reform Webinars are your resource to stay close to the proposed law and to ask questions that may be important to your livelihood and to your clients. Join us each week to learn more and get your questions answered. Register now.

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