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Mental Health Parity: Four Compliance Documents to Reference During Period of Nonenforcement for the 2024 Final Rule
Jenny Gartman, CEBS
 

The Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury announced on May 15, 2025 that they will not enforce the portions of the 2024 final rule implementing the nonquantitative treatment limitation (NQTL) comparative analyses requirements under the Mental Health Parity […]

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Mental Health Parity Pitfall to Avoid: Network Adequacy Data Part II
Jenny Gartman, CEBS
 

The Department of Labor (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)’s 2024 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) report to Congress, issued January 17, 2025, addressed the enforcement approach to nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) for network adequacy and network composition. The […]

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Compliance DOL Employee Benefits Health Care Legislative Mental Health Regulatory U.S.

Mental Health Parity Pitfall to Avoid: Network Adequacy Data
Jenny Gartman, CEBS
 

The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) requires group health plans that provide mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits to offer parity between coverage of physical health conditions and mental health conditions. The […]

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The Multiemployer Retirement Plan Landscape Report: DB Key Findings
Cathe Gooding, CEBS
 

The overall health of multiemployer defined benefit (DB) retirement plans improved from 2020 to 2021. The average multiemployer DB plan net investment return for 2021 was 14.5%, up from 2020 (11.4%), according to The Multiemployer Retirement Plan Landscape: A 15-Year Look (2007-2021) recently […]

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401(k) Plans Defined Contribution (DC) Plans DOL Employee Benefits ERISA Multiemployer Retirement U.S.

The Multiemployer Retirement Plan Landscape Report: DC Key Findings
Cathe Gooding, CEBS
 

The overall health of multiemployer defined contribution (DC) retirement plans improved from 2020 to 2021. The average account balance for a participant in a median multiemployer DC plan increased from $46,100 at the end of 2019 to $52,800 at the end of 2021, […]

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Plan Sponsors Can Self-Correct Some Violations of ERISA—Here’s Where to Start 
Jenny Gartman, CEBS
 

The Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFCP) encourages employers and plan sponsors to voluntarily correct certain violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). For certain categories of eligible transactions, the Department of Labor (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) intends for […]

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