{"id":152,"date":"2010-06-11T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/Broker\/?p=152"},"modified":"2010-06-11T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:10:09","slug":"federal-health-care-reform-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/2010\/06\/11\/federal-health-care-reform-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Health Care Reform Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As your business partner, HNE is committed to keeping you informed of changes to the healthcare industry, particularly those which could have an impact on your business. This\u00a0posting describes two new provisions in the federal healthcare reform law<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/Broker\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=152#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>, enacted on March 23, 2010 that may impact your group health plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Dependent Age Extension\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hne.com\/HNE_Brokers\/documents\/The_Dependent_Age_Extension.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Extension of Dependent Coverage to Age 26<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a title=\"Annual and Lifetime Limits\" href=\"http:\/\/hne.com\/HNE_Brokers\/documents\/Annual_and_Lifetime_Limits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Prohibitions Against Lifetime Benefit Caps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently, HNE is reviewing your group health plan designs. We will identify whether or not any changes to them are \u00a0necessary to comply with these provisions before the effective date applicable to your plan.<\/p>\n<p>HNE will keep you informed as additional information becomes available regarding the federal healthcare reform law, the full implications of which may not be known until the final implementing regulations are issued.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/Broker\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=152#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> The federal health care reform law is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as amended by the subsequently enacted Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As your business partner, HNE is committed to keeping you informed of changes to the healthcare industry, particularly those which could have an impact on your business. This\u00a0posting describes two new provisions in the federal healthcare reform law[1], enacted on March 23, 2010 that may impact your group health plan: The Extension of Dependent Coverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZOS-2s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/broker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}