New Health Care Reform Adviser™ from Bloomberg BNA Offers Expert Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for Legal Practitioners

ARLINGTON, Va., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new reference service from Bloomberg BNA Tax & Accounting provides analysis on the tax, benefits, and insurance issues facing employers that offer employee health benefits - and the penalties that apply to employers that do not offer sufficient health benefits.

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Authored by Alden J. Bianchi, an authority on federal and state health care reform, the new Health Care Reform Adviser™ helps health care law practitioners understand the ongoing impacts and tax implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for their clients. Mr. Bianchi is the practice group leader of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice, and a member in the Employment, Labor & Benefits Section, at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Bloomberg BNA Managing Editor Sharon Fountain notes that "we developed the Health Care Reform Adviser to meet the needs of our subscribers for robust, tax-focused analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."

The Health Care Reform Adviser provides expert insights and analysis on major topics including:

• Tax credits for small businesses
• Other tax incentives for employers
• Health insurance market reform
• Plan administration requirements
• Retiree health benefits
• State-based exchanges
• Group health plan insurance provisions
• Health plan design options
• Taxation of employees and individuals
• Implications for employer-sponsored health benefits
• HIPAA, COBRA and FMLA
• And many more.

Also included in the Adviser are links to relevant primary source information, including ERISA, labor and employment laws, the Public Health Service Act, final and proposed regulations, and agency documents. Additionally, the service features model policies, internal and external claims procedures, sample notices and forms, and compliance flowcharts.

"Many of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are in effect, such as the requirement that employers extend dependent coverage to age 26", says Fountain, "while other, and in some cases more controversial, provisions are not effective until 2014, or later. Assuming most or all provisions of the Act survive the Supreme Court challenge, employers face additional compliance requirements in the coming years that will profoundly affect group health plan design and administration. The Adviser addresses all of these issues and more."

The Health Care Reform Adviser™ is available on Bloomberg BNA's Tax and Accounting Center™, Benefits Practice Resource Center™, and Health Law Resource Center™.  For more information on the service, or to receive a free demonstration or trial, visit http://www.bna.com/cbplus.

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