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November Service Highlight: ACA Compliance Since its enactment in 2010, we have made it our business to understand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) so you don’t have to. Paragon offers employers a full suite of ACA compliance services ranging from hands-on, full-service solutions, to simpler reporting and filing services.  And we can work with data from any source, be it a payroll system, HRIS, or any other method you’re using to storing your data. Learn More You are invited to join our webinar HR Compliance in a Post-Pandemic World November 18th at [...]

By The ACA Team And just like that, our seventh filing year has come to an end. 2021 was a bit better to all of us than 2020, and we hope the same for you. Just like in the past, the due date for furnishing Form 1095-C to employees was extended from January 31, 2022, to March 2, 2022. Forms were then due to be filed by March 31, 2022. Below are some helpful lessons we learned over the last year as well as years past. We’re sharing them with you in hopes that we can all be prepared for [...]

By ACA Team Paragon Compliance is pleased to introduce our new Monthly Stability report. This report eliminates the need for the Initial Stability report (previously included in our Monthly Compliance Suite) and the Administrative Report, generally included at the end of the measurement period. The Monthly Stability report shows which employees should maintain coverage over the Stability period as well as those employees who should be offered coverage within their Waiting or Admin periods during the reporting month. If the offer of coverage is rescinded or not offered within the Waiting or Admin periods, it may cause the ACA [...]

By Yana Lender 2021 is almost over and for many, that means that it’s time to prepare for open enrollment.  As you know, open enrollment is the annual period, generally in the fall, when employees elect their health insurance benefits for the upcoming calendar year.  As a benefits professional, you will soon be providing new health plan details, including costs, to your enrollees.  Please read on for how those health plan details – and costs! – affect your organization’s compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Will the plans offered be affordable under the ACA for the 2022 filing [...]

By Yana Lender 2020 was a year of surprises for all of us – our health, economy, politics, and personal and professional lives were turned upside down.  What always remains consistent, though, in any circumstances, is taxes. The IRS might change filing requirements and deadlines, but we can be sure that taxes will always be there. Affordable Care Act filing requirements on the Federal level have not changed much.  Deadlines were extended (thankfully for your filing vendor or for you if you are doing it for your organization); however, to make sure it was not as easy as 1-2-3, [...]