The Internal Revenue Service is still trying to figure out how to combine two new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reporting programs.
One of the new programs requires a carrier to tell the IRS and consumers whether it's providing minimum essential coverage.
The other requires a large employer to tell the IRS whether it's meeting the "shared responsibility" requirements — the employer mandate — by offering full-time workers affordable coverage with a minimum value. An employer that violates the mandate rules could have to pay a penalty of $2,000 per affected worker.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
