Healthcare Reform and the New Grandfathering Rules: What You Need to Know

Description

On March 23, President Obama signed into law the most sweeping health care reform legislation in our nation’s history. Since then, the government agencies have been issuing comprehensive and complex guidance. The U.S. Department of Labor has already issued guidance on covering dependent children up to age 26 (mandated under reform). The IRS outlined the tax advantages of providing such coverage. And the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources has described how plans may apply for government-sponsored reinsurance for retirees over age 55 who have not yet aged into Medicare. Very important rules on the grandfathering of existing health plans will come out any day now. These and other rules and guidance raise daunting administrative issues.

This webinar will demystify the provisions of reform and offer insight into implementation of the laws’ coverage mandates. Join noted experts Paul M. Hamburger and James R. Napoli, who will present practical guidance on making the mandated changes to your healthcare plans and documentation in this 90-minute interactive webinar.

What You'll Learn From This Webinar:

• What a grandfathered plan is and which reform mandates apply to such a plan.
• The new law’s coverage mandates and the issues related to the implementation of those mandates.
• New definitions you need to understand to implement the dependent child coverage mandate.

Recording Date

Speakers

Paul M. Hamburger is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Proskauer Rose LLP, where he heads the D.C. Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Center. In employee benefits planning and consultation, Mr. Hamburger advises employers on all aspects of their employee benefit programs, including matters affecting tax-qualified retirement plans (such as 401(k) plans, ESOPs, cash balance pension plans, and other retirement plan designs), executive compensation plans, and welfare benefit plans (including cafeteria plan, COBRA and other group health plan issues). He also advises employee benefit plan trustees and service providers on various ERISA, COBRA, and other employee benefit plan related matters. Mr. Hamburger has extensive experience in representing clients before government regulatory agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Mr. Hamburger currently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center teaching the LLM tax course on ERISA Health and Welfare Benefit Plans. Mr. Hamburger is a frequent speaker on employee benefit matters, including annual presentations at the ABA National Institute on Welfare Plans since 1987. He is also an author of numerous articles and other publications on employee benefits matters, including three nationally-circulated loose leaf publications, each published by Thompson Publishing Group: “Mandated Health Benefits -- The COBRA Guide,” “The Guide to Assigning & Loaning Benefit Plan Money,” and “The Pension Plan Fix-It Handbook.”

Presentation Materials

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