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August 1, 2011 - Employer health plan enrollment up 2% under PPACA’s dependent eligibility rule
In just over a year since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordablility Care Act (PPACA), employers have already felt its effects, with an average 2% increase in enrollment as they extended eligibility for dependent coverage to employees' children up to age 26. According to a survey of nearly 900 employers released today by Mercer, PPACA's rule requiring employers to automatically enroll newly hired, or newly eligible, full-time employees into a health plan will cause enrollment to grow by another 2% on average in 2014, when the provsion is slated to go into effect. Read entire Mercer survey.
May 2011 - Health Care Reform: The Question of Essential Benefits
Health Care plan years starting on or after Sept. 23, 2010, cannot impose
lifetime dollar limits and they must gradually
eliminate annual dollar limits on essential health
benefits. To help employers make informed decisions and
reasonable interpretations of the scope of benefits
offered in a “typical” employer plan, Mercer
surveyed employers about specific health
care services and items. Here are the results of this important survey.
May 2011 - Perspective: Emerging challenges ... and opportunities ... in the new health care world
This Perspective provides an overview of how we expect the health care market to respond in the post-reform era.
May 15, 2011 Health Care Timeline
Key Elements of Health Reform for Employers
March 9, 2011 - Health Care Reform Series Plan for health care reform's shared responsibiliy in 2014
9/8/2010 Mercer Update - New notices and disclosures
due under health care reform
7/21/2010 Mercer Update - How to keep grandfathered status under health care reform rules
High-Risk Pool Provisions under the National Health Reform Law
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RIBGH Announces 2012 Membership Meetings Schedule 
