Dec 10, 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had many people scratching their head and wondering what will be included on their new ACA-Compliant policy. What are the Mandatory Benefits and Excepted Benefits?
What are Mandatory Benefits?
As you probably know by now, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has issued benefits that MUST be included on a health insurance policy. These benefits include:
What are Excepted Benefits?
Certain benefits are used to supplement comprehensive medical coverage and are outside the ACA regulation, these are called Excepted Benefits. A few examples of Excepted Benefits are stand-alone dental and vision plans. However, if the dental and vision plans are NOT stand-alone, they are still subject to the ACA reforms.
What are other Excepted Benefits?
As of October 1, 2014 a few other Excepted Benefits were added to the list.
Employee Assistance Plans (EAPs) are now considered Excepted Benefits if:
The October 1 ruling also clarified that self-insured plans which include dental and vision benefits but do not charge an employee for contribution also qualify as excepted benefits.
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