Your June Total Benefit Briefs

June 2015

Introducing The Total Benefits Access Plan

Want to offer your employees benefits but the cost is prohibitive? Total Benefit Solutions, Inc. now offers a package of benefits that are available to individuals, families or small group customers for full and part time employees.

With the Total Benefits Access plan employees get a comprehensive bundle of benefits, access to no cost medical care docs and nurses, discount dental, professional advisors to guide them through plan selection/enrollment and their own personal health advocates!

Employers get an affordable benefit at only $19.99 per month that they can offer to all employees, and it includes their family members, and our ACA compliance and assistance services including exchange notice delivery, Think HR and more.

Click here for more details on the Total Benefit Access Plan!

Mandatory Sick Leave Law

Philadelphia Mandatory Sick Leave

Effective May 13, 2015, most employers will be required to provide up to 40 hours of paid or unpaid sick time per calendar year to eligible employees (generally individuals who perform work within Philadelphia for at least 40 hours in a year)...

Health Reform: At Total Benefit Solutions Inc., we are dedicated to providing the advice our clients need to remain compliant and make informed benefit decisions.

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FAQs Further Clarify New Embedded Out-of-Pocket Requirement

On May 26, 2015, the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments) issued new FAQs further clarifying this new rule.Click Here

Group Health Plan Notices 2015 Calendar
From our partners at HR360: This calendar/checklist is designed to help companies review the key requirements that may apply to their employer group health plans under ERISA , the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and more. Click here.

Compliance and Health Reform Education Center

Total Benefits Comply is our Compliance and Health Reform Education Center where we will keep our health care reform bulletins throughout the year, in an easy to view format, along with short informative videos. Click here for Total Benefits Comply.

Employer Shared Responsibility Guide

Questions about your organizations compliance with the ACA? Do you qualify? What about measurement periods, stability periods, forms? Download our Employer Shared Responsibility Guide today courtesy of Think HR. Click here.

Employer Reporting Guide for Large Employers 6055 and 6056 Reporting for Large Employers Beginning with calendar year (CY) 2015, an applicable large employer (ALE or "large employer," as referenced in this summary) must use Forms 1094-C and 1095-C to report the information. C lick here

Have More Questions about the Affordable Care Act?
Still have questions about the ACA and how it affects you or your company? Please call us today and we will get you the answers you need!

Confused by Medicare? Total Benefit Solutions Can Answer All of Your Medicare Questions!

Did You Know? Everyone knows about the annual open enrollment period that starts on October 15th, but most people don't know about the annual DISENROLLMENT period!

Call us today and ask us your Medicare supplement and advantage questions! Remember you don't have to do it alone, Total Benefit Solutions works with all of the Medicare insurers.

Upcoming Events

PA Society of Tax and Accounting Professionals

Tuesday June 23, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT

Are you an accounting or tax professional? Edward MacConnell, CBC, CHRS will be presenting The Affordable care Act: Fact & Fiction at the BuxMont Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Tax & Accounting Professionals. Join us for a fun and fact filled presentation if you are a member, or would like to become a member of PSTAP. Williamsons Restaurant, Horsham. Click here for event information.

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Now More Than Ever You Need To Stay Informed

Things change faster now in weeks, than they used to in years. Clients often ask us why we do not send out bulletins more often. Simply because if we did we would be sending you notices many times each month, cramming your inbox. Instead , we post frequent updates on our website. Use the search feature in the top right hand corner to find specific information.

We try to keep this newsletter brief and to the point to respect your time and inbox space. In these times of so much change that certainly is a challenge. Thank you for subscribing!

Warm Regards,

Edward T. MacConnell CBC, CHRS
Certified Healthcare Reform Specialist