Labor and Employment Alert: Claims, Appeals and External Review Rules Liberalized

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) imposed new rules for claims, appeals and external review on non-grandfathered group health plans. Those rules, as originally issued on July 23, 2010, were surprisingly complex and burdensome. After a series of modest modifications, the IRS, DOL and HHS came out with some more significant changes on June 24, 2011.

Click on the link below to download the Labor and Employment Alert that provides a brief overview of these new rules.