The Obama administration has posted a 32-page batch of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act regulations that could reshape some non-medical health benefits.
The rule was finalized Wednesday.
The package, Amendments to Excepted Benefits, affects one category of benefits that are free from most of the requirements that apply to major medical coverage: "limited excepted benefits." The category includes dental benefits, vision benefits, long-term care benefits and some other types of benefits, such as employee assistance plans.
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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.
