Voluntary Benefits

Another provision could make contributing to HSAs the only way for a new corporation to use the federal health benefits tax exclusion.

The Patients Before Monopolies Act bill has returned with a bipartisan list of supporters in both the House and the Senate.

An analyst with influence over House Republicans is recommending that as a way to increase competition.

California is trying to apply its new law to PBM efforts to serve self-insured employer health plans, as well as to PBM efforts to serve health insurers and government-run plans, such as public employee health plans.

A new draft regulation would let employers offer the coverage through excepted benefits products.

The case could hinge on the details in a self-funded health plan's master services agreement.