ACA Reporting to Become Your Broker?

With the rise of employee benefit brokerage firms having full service HR administration capabilities (such as Zenefits), it shouldn’t be surprising that these firms are using ACA reporting as a wedge to become the broker on all lines of business for large employers.  We speak with dozens of benefit brokers every week, and in the past 30 days this sales pitch has picked up significant steam.  Recently we interviewed one of the senior most employee benefit experts in the country to see what his thoughts were on this trend.

“It was just a matter of time.  The marketplace, and many benefit […] Read more

Evaluating ACA 6056 Employer Reporting Software?

Employers & Benefit Brokers Evaluating ACA 6056 Reporting Software

If you are a large employer or employee benefit broker, chances are you have spent a lot of time trying to determine the best ACA 6056 reporting and compliance solution for your clients.  We do not sell software – but rather full service reporting.  However, we have researched almost a dozen different ACA employer reporting and compliance vendors and we thought we would pass along what we learned.

Beginning Questions To Ask Yourself

As an employer or benefit broker, this is how the ACA reporting question breaks down for you.

1).  Some employers will have their online […] Read more

Municipalities, School Districts, Governmental Entities – ACA Reporting

Municipalities, School Districts, Governmental Entities – ACA Reporting

Across the country municipal government, cities, towns and school districts are beginning to learn their responsibilities for Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting to the IRS under Internal Revenue Code 6055 and 6056.  We speak to these municipal groups every day, and this often is a complete shock to them.  What do you mean I have a self funded plan?

For municipal groups and school districts under the state health plan in their given state, they are being notified that they are actually on a self funded plan.  The reason for this is the manner in which the states generally arrange these […] Read more

All Large Employers MUST Complete ACA Reporting (Even Fully Insured Groups)

All Large Employers MUST Complete ACA Reporting (Even Fully Insured Groups)

This comes as a surprise to many, but YES – if you are an employer with 50+ employees (or full time equivalent employees), you must complete ACA Reporting to the IRS (forms 1094 and 1095).

But I’m Fully Insured . . . My insurance carrier will take care of this right?   No!

You might have thought that your insurance carrier was going to take care of this, but they only report the portion that they are required to report as an insurance carrier.  Employers still have additional responsibilities.  

The easiest way to think about this is by considering what the […] Read more