Opinions

September 26, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When the employee portion of the Medicare Tax increases by 0.9% in 2013, does the employer have to withhold that amount from payroll? ...

September 12, 2012 - In our last column, we noted that many plan sponsors had been waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...

September 5, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court found the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be constitutional. 

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August 22, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes a number of revenue-raising provisions intended to offset the cost of other, revenue-losing...

August 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR (b)lines) - The act of distributing participant-level fee disclosures is likely to focus more employee attention on your plan.  How much information should you...

August 7, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new rule under PPACA requires health insurers to review the ratio of costs paid out for claims and quality improvement expenses to...

August 7, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It is 2012, but some 403(b) plans are looking back to the past – 2009 to be exact.  Why?

August 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - I want to rebuild the pension system, but I need your help.

If there’s one thing employers agree on when it comes to their employees’ retirement, it’s that workers simply aren’t saving enough.

If there’s one thing employers agree on when it comes to their employees’ retirement, it’s that workers simply aren’t saving enough.

July 20, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The litany of challenges related to having multiple retirement plan service providers is well documented.

July 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) caps salary reduction contributions to health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) at $2,500 beginning in 2013.

Sponsors of 403(b) plans are paying more attention to the role of participant education in fee disclosure regulations—opening up a big opportunity for financial professionals.

We have devoted several columns to the new Summary of Benefits & Coverage (SBC) rules, which require group health plans to issue a summary of health benefit options...

In the past, the average retirement plan participant may have thought that their 403(b) or 401(k) plans were free, but when new fee disclosure regulations take effect in...

Experts from Groom Law Group continue to answer questions frequently received about comparative effectiveness fees.

June 5, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR (b)lines) - The logical next step after 408(b)(2) is taking your newly acquired fee disclosure knowledge and putting it to its highest use --...

PPACA section 6301 amended Title XI of the Social Security Act to establish the Patient‐Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

We previously wrote about one of PPACA's new requirements – that group health plans provide eligible individuals with a "summary of benefits and coverage (SBC).