With a new year underway, there are so many compliance-related items to consider relating to your employee benefit plans. The rules you’re supposed to comply with keep growing and growing—they seem like the gifts that keep on giving (and changing).
Here are some of the key items to consider as we head into 2024.
Health Plans
Gag-clause attestations were due December 31, 2023. Self-funded group health plans are now prohibited from entering into an agreement with a healthcare provider, network, third-party administrator, or other service provider offering access to a network of providers that would directly or indirectly restrict a plan from providing provider-specific cost or quality of care information or data through a consumer engagement tool or any other means to:
