The January 14 Employer Webinar is is part two of our September webinar on health reimbursement arrangements. This webinar will focus on individual coverage HRAs with an emphasis on the proposed rules on nondiscrimination and affordability.

A co-branded email invitation has been sent to all Partners to use in inviting clients and prospects.

What Employers Need to Know about the New Final Rules on Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Part 2

Tuesday, January 14, 2020
2:00 p.m. Eastern, 11:00 a.m. Pacific

This webinar will provide an overview of the new final rules on health reimbursement arrangements regarding individual coverage HRAs with an emphasis on the proposed rules regarding nondiscrimination and affordability by:

• Describing what a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) is
• Describing the new individual coverage HRA
• Describing the types of individual coverage that can and cannot be integrated with an HRA
• Illustrating how the integration rules apply to an individual coverage HRA that is integrated with Medicare, emphasizing that Medicare eligible or entitled employees is not a class under the final rules
• Explaining how an employer would structure an individual coverage HRA, including the nondiscrimination rules, classes of employees, minimum class size, opt-out and reimbursement waiver provisions, individual coverage substantiation, and notice requirements
• Describing how Section 105(h) nondiscrimination applies to individual coverage HRAs, including the exceptions for increases in HRA amounts due to age and family size
• Describing how the individual coverage HRA interacts with the employer shared responsibility provisions, including the affordability safe harbors and the new look-back month safe harbor and location safe harbor
• Describing best practices in offering HRAs under the final rules and proposed rules

This 60-minute intermediate level webinar will help employers understand individual coverage HRAs..

Our presenter is Tiffani Greene, a member of the Employee Benefits Practice Group and the Prevention and Compliance Team at Fisher Phillips. She brings a unique mix of experience in the complex areas of employee benefits law and corporate compliance. From counseling on the day-to-day operations of employee benefits plans to assisting with regulatory risk mitigation, she has a deep understanding of her clients' needs and how to create effective solutions.

Use your Priority Code or Subscription Code to offer the webinar at a discount to your clients and prospects. Subscribers also get a co-branded recording. Look up your code on the Wisdom Network Employer Webinar page. The email invitation will be available this week for download from AdEase.

Partner Firm employees can attend the webinar for free with their Partner Firm discount code shown on the Wisdom Network Employer Webinar page.

Questions about the webinar? Contact Karen Hsu, Director of Compliance, at khsu@ubabenefits.com. If you need help with AdEase, contact Meg Cipar, Editor of Digital Media, at mcipar@ubabenefits.com.