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The Impact of PPACA on Employment-Based Health Coverage of Adult Children to Age 26
Fronstin, Paul - 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) enacted March 23, 2010, requires that group health plans and insurers make dependent coverage available for children until they attain the age of 26, regardless of tax or student status, or dependent status as it relates to financial...
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Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Pregnancy : Health Spending Following the PPACA Adult-Dependent Mandate
Fronstin, Paul - 2013
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires group health plans that offer dependent coverage to make that coverage available to workers’ children until they reach age 26, regardless of student status, marital status, or financial support by the employees. A number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158847
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Health Savings Account Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Other Vital Statistics, 2014 : Estimates from the EBRI HSA Database
Fronstin, Paul - 2015
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) maintains a wealth of data collected from various health savings account (HSA) providers. The EBRI HSA Database contains 2.9 million accounts with total assets of $5 billion as of Dec. 31, 2014. This paper is the second annual report drawing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134398
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Trends in Health Savings Account Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Investments, 2011-2016 : Statistics from the EBRI HSA Database
Fronstin, Paul - 2017
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) developed the EBRI HSA Database to analyze the state of, and individual behavior in, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The HSA database contains 5.5 million accounts with total assets of $11.4 billion as of Dec. 31, 2016. This paper is the first...
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Health Savings Account Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Other Vital Statistics, 2015 : Estimates from the EBRI HSA Database
Fronstin, Paul - 2016
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) maintains data on health savings accounts (HSAs) collected from various recordkeepers. The EBRI HSA Database contains four million accounts with total assets of $7.4 billion as of Dec. 31, 2015. This paper is the third annual report drawing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123895
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HSA Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Other Vital Statistics -- A First Look at Data from the EBRI HSA Database on the 10th Anniversary of the HSA
Fronstin, Paul - 2014
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of health savings accounts (HSAs) under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. The EBRI HSA Database contains data collected from various HSA providers on 1.5 million accounts with total assets of $2.7...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052293
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Choice of Health Plan : Findings from the 2009 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey
Fronstin, Paul - 2010
offer a choice of health plan. In 2009, 86 percent of employers offering health benefits offered only one health plan; 13 … benefits who have a choice of health plan was in large part unchanged since 2005 (ranging from 54 percent to 62 percent), the … plans. To obtain the benefits of competition requires that insurance policies be easily comparable to facilitate consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197694
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Retiree Health Benefit Trends Among the Medicare-Eligible Population
Fronstin, Paul - 2010
This paper examines the prevalence of retiree health benefits among Medicare-eligible retirees. It discusses the … percentage of retirees with employment-based retiree health benefits over the 1994-2008 period. It also examines the trend for … availability of health benefits for retirees through former private-sector employers was a 1990 accounting rule. FAS 106 required …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199279
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Implications of Health Reform for Retiree Health Benefits
Fronstin, Paul - 2010
health benefits. The paper also provides background on the impact of private-sector accounting rule changes on the … availability of retiree health benefits since the mid-1990s; the more recent impact of public-sector accounting rule changes on … retiree health benefits in the public sector; the impact on employment-based retiree health benefits of adding a drug benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199285
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What Do We Know About Enrollment in Consumer-Driven Health Plans?
Fronstin, Paul - 2009
This paper summarizes the literature on CDHP offer rates and enrollment. Since consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) were first offered in 2001, estimates of how many workers would be enrolled in these plans have varied widely. The U.S. Treasury Department has predicted that 25-30 million people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200144