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: Article examines a proposed amendment to the MAP-21 Act that would have changed a number of tax requirements regarding so-called life settlements.

Description: Updated discussion of IRS Proposed Regulations under Section 162(m)(6), their potential impact upon the life insurance industry, and a 2 percent de minimis exception.

Description: A discussion of the issues to be considered for computing tax reserves relating to guaranteed renewable and noncancellable health insurance and how these concerns are sometimes overlooked.

Description: Provides a summary of recent proposed regulations for the health insurer fee, section 9010 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Description: This article describes Health Savings Accounts HSAs and the tax and other aspects of these funds.

Description: The PPACA imposed a market share-based health insurance provider fee, known as the "Section 9010 Fee", "Health Insurer Fee", or simply the "HIF", on each “covered entity” with net premiums written in excess of $25 million that is engaged in the business of providing health insurance coverage for U.S. health risks. This article provides background information to help unpack the language behind the Section 9010 Fee and highlights a few areas of special interest including merger and acquisition-related issues, application of the Section 9010 fee to expatriate plans, and considerations regarding fee administration.

Description: Synopsis of Issue Brief prepared by Tax Work Group of the Academy-LTD Claim Reserve Assumption Basis: Use of date of incurral/date of issue of original policy.