Promoting Wellness: Proposed Rules under Health Care Reform Include Increased Incentive Opportunity for Wellness Programs
The Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, and Department of the Treasury (collectively, the Departments) recently released proposed regulations clarifying and amending the standards for nondiscriminatory wellness programs to reflect changes to existing provisions made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The proposed regulations (2014 Proposed Rules) would apply to all group health plans (including grandfathered plans) and group health insurance coverage for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, if adopted as final regulations.
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