Brian Gilmore is the Lead Benefits Counsel at Newfront. He assists clients on a wide variety of employee benefits compliance issues. The primary areas of his practice include ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, Section 125 Cafeteria Plans, and 401(k) plans. Brian also presents regularly at trade events and in webinars on current hot topics in employee benefits law. Connect with Brian on LinkedIn.
Most daycare providers require advance payment, causing challenges as employers and their TPAs process dependent care FSA debit card expenses. Newfront's Brian Gilmore covers the guidelines, a workaround, and the steps required.
June 6th 2023
Continue readingThe IRS has issued its annual inflation adjustment to the HSA contribution limits for calendar year 2024, and Newfront covers what you need to know about the second consecutive year of unusually large increases.
May 23rd 2023
Continue readingThis blog post covers why some medical plan insurance carriers and TPAs reach out to employers requesting a portion of the information used in the RxDC report.
April 3rd 2023
Continue readingNewfront's Brian Gilmore explores employers' roles with respect to the Medicare Form CMS-L564.
March 21st 2023
Continue readingThe Covid pandemic emergency periods are finally coming to a close, and with their end comes the conclusion of these key group health plan provisions that have been a staple since the world changed so dramatically in March 2020. Employers should be aware of these changes taking effect.
February 8th 2023
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Reviewing the main employer considerations when responding to employee requests to override a self-insured health plan third-party administrator's adverse benefit determination.
February 1st 2023
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The IRS recently finalized new regulations providing that ALEs must furnish the Forms 1095-C to employees no later than March 2, 2023.
December 15th 2022
Continue readingHow should employers address the many challenges associated with the 55% average benefits test component of the dependent care FSA nondiscrimination testing?
November 30th 2022
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