Description: In order to encourage health insurance issuers to offer health insurance coverage on the Exchange and on the individual and small group markets, while ameliorating the potential impact on any particular health insurance issuer of providing coverage without pricing for pre-existing conditions or the gender of the insured, the Affordable Care Act includes three risk-sharing programs: the Transitional Reinsurance program, the Risk Corridor program and the Risk Adjustment program (collectively referred to as the “3Rs”). The financial and tax reporting of each health insurance issuer is affected by the implementation of these risk-sharing programs because each health insurance issuer is required to pay for the programs’ costs, and some issuers are or will be eligible for benefits under them.

Description: The financial crisis of the recent past has prompted the director of the financial services industry portion of the Large and Mid-Size Business “LMSB” Division of the Internal Revenue Service “Service” to announce an increased focus during audit on the reporting by members of the financial services industry of losses attributable to bad debts or to worthless securities issued by subsidiaries.