About Lois Gleason, CEBS
Instructional Designer at the International Foundation
Favorite Foundation Product: Employee Benefits Survey (conducted every two years; it is very comprehensive).
Benefits-Related Topic Top Picks: The changing landscape of America’s costly health care system, ERISA compliance, retirement decumulation strategies.
Favorite Things About Working at the Foundation: My co-workers and how much they care about the quality of their work product. I also love, love, love all the windows in our office with their beautiful views of trees and sky.
Personal Insight: I am constantly reading. I can relate to the flaws, strengths, and silly inconsistencies found in the characters of classic novels like Middlemarch, North and South, and A Tale of Two Cities. I also read the daily newspapers every morning at breakfast–and yes, I still get the paper versions. Because it’s no big deal if a little coffee spills on them.
Wayne Kemp wrote a great old song for Johnny Cash called “One Piece at a Time.” In it, Johnny sings of slowly piecing together his very own Cadillac using parts… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
April 9, 2015
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Cadillac Tax, Employee Benefits, Health Care, RegulatoryCadillac tax, excise tax, IRS Notice 2015-16, Section 4890I
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Defined benefit pension plan administrators: You might need to change your annual funding notice. The Department of Labor published a final rule in the Federal Register on February 2, 2015… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
March 19, 2015
Defined Benefit (DB) Plans, DOL, Employee Benefits, ERISA, Multiemployer, Pensions, RegulatoryAFN, Annual Funding Notice, ERISA 101(f), HAFTA, MAP-21, MPRA, PBGC
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Are your employees asking you for documentation of their employer-sponsored health coverage in 2014? Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employers may voluntarily, but are not required to, provide this… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
March 3, 2015
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, RegulatoryACA, employee, health coverage, IRS, tax form, taxes
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If the Affordable Care Act were a celebrity, it would be that really big star you either love or hate—or maybe love to hate. Since 2010, ACA has commanded the U.S…. Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
January 22, 2015
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, RegulatoryACA, Affordable Care Act, benefits, Cromnibus, employee benefits, expatriate, health, Health Care, Medicare, MEPRA, MPRA, Private Exchanges, QHP, Qualified Health Plans, Risk Corridor Program, Section 833
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By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS In 2015, Affordable Care Act (ACA) transition relief allows applicable large employers (ALE) to avoid one of the ACA penalties (the one that could cost employers $2,000 per… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
December 23, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care
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By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act is big … and complicated … but there is another complicated act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), that health administrators… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
November 18, 2014
Employee Benefits, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Mental Health
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By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS Updates: On November 14, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it was extending the deadline for submitting 2014 enrollment counts for the transitional… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
October 21, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory
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By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS Whose Social Security numbers must we report under the Affordable Care Act, and what if we don’t have all the numbers we need? Beginning in 2016,… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
September 9, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory6055, 6056, ACA, Affordable Care Act, section 6055, section 6056, social security numbers, ssn
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By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave health plans an extraordinary amount of new reporting and disclosure requirements. However, one preexisting requirement (pun intended) will disappear beginning January… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
August 13, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, HIPAA, Regulatory
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By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act changed our language as well as our health care system. Some of ACA’s key terms and phrases sound remarkably similar but have different… Read more >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
June 20, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care
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