Health Care Reform Webinar: Regulatory Guidance Focus (8-12-2010)
The three agencies charged with drafting guidance for the group market reform provisions of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" have been very busy this summer releasing guidance.  Nonetheless, unanswered questions still remain.  In this webinar, we will focus on the following guidance:  Dependent coverage of children to age 26; Grandfather rules; Prohibition on preexisting condition exclusions; Prohibition on lifetime and annual limits; Patient protections (including emergency services); Preventive services.

Who Should Attend:
Employees of SPBA member TPA firms and Stop-Loss Service Partners.
Seminar Objectives
  • Learn how to implement the dependent coverage extension rule.
  • Explore the pros and cons of grandfather status.
  • What changes will cause plans to lose grandfather status?
  • Deepen your understanding of the prohibition of preexisting condition exclusions.
  • Are non-dollar limits still allowed on essential benefits?
  • Learn about the new rules for reimbursing emergency services.
  • Explore design options for first dollar coverage of preventive services.
Seminar Information
Date Presented:
August 12, 2010 1:00 PM Eastern
Length:
2 hours
Ashley Gillihan
Ashley Gillihan is counsel in the Atlanta office and a member of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and ERISA Litigation Groups. Mr. Gillihan focuses his practice exclusively on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. He also has extensive experience assisting financial institutions and insurance companies who serve as Health Savings Account trustees or custodians. Mr. Gillihan is active in publishing and speaking on various health and welfare benefit plan related topics and serves as a faculty member and/or technical advisor for several health and welfare benefit plan focused organizations. Ashley received his undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky University and his law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in 1996. He is a member of the Alabama Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association and the Georgia Bar Association.
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