Tag: reinsurance

Few Self-Insured Plans Will Escape Paying Reinsurance Fees

By Todd Leeuwenburgh Oct 22, 2014 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Oct 22, 2014

Only self-insured plans that completely self-administer claims payments and plan operations will avoid paying onerous transitional reinsurance fees. If a self-insured health plan does no more than determine eligibility, it will have to pay, according to Jeffrey Endick, an attorney with Slevin & Hart in Washington D.C. An exception exists to the onerous fee $63 per-member-per-year fee: Self-insured […]

Government Proposal Refines Reform Fees on Health Plans

By Todd Leeuwenburgh Dec 3, 2013 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Dec 3, 2013

A proposed rule put on public display Nov. 26 adjusts Transitional Reinsurance Program rules and tries to put out fires left burning by the ever-moving target of health care reform. For example, it proposes a lower contribution level insurers and self-funded plans would pay in 2015 to a transitional reinsurance fund, and gives employers the […]