When is a deadline not a deadline? When it’s set by the PatientProtection and Affordable Care Act.
|The latest one to be pushed back involves an employer summary ofbenefits designed to help plan members better understand what theirhealth insurance covers.
Employers were supposed to be ready to produce such a document (nolonger than four pages) by this coming September.
But employers howled that the deadline was too tight.
Now, the Department of Labor says that the feds won’t be ready witha template and related document to share with employers until atleast January 2016, so employers are off the hook for awhile.
In fact, now the plan summaries won’t be required until the 2016enrollment period for coverage that begins on or after Jan. 1,2017.
Essentially, the feds are taking the advice of the NationalBusiness Group on Health, which, in a comment during the rulemakingprocess last March, suggested the government “delay the effectivedate of the SBC and uniform glossary requirements to the first dayof the first plan year beginning 12 months after the issuance offinal regulations.”
|Who says they’re not listening in D.C.?
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