Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Advisory: The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act's Health Insurance Nondiscrimination Rule
10/31/2006
The recently enacted Massachusetts health care reform act-H. 4850, An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care (the "Act")-imposed new health insurance requirements on individuals, insurers and employers. In earlier client advisories we provided an overview of the Act (see Health Alert, April 13, 2006), discussed the impact of a recent judicial challenge to a Maryland law with features similar to the Act (see Employee Benefits Advisory, July 28, 2006), and explained a recently issued final regulation implementing the Act's fair share premium contribution requirement (see Employee Benefits Advisory, Oct. 13, 2006). This advisory focuses on another of the Act's novel features-the nondiscrimination requirement that applies to fully insured health plans.
