Employers have anxiously awaited the release of the interim final rules (pdf) relating to “grandfathered” health care plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The regulations have garnered a significant amount of controversy in the past couple of days, as a leaked draft version indicated that more than half of employer-sponsored plans would not qualify for the grandfathered status. Under PPACA, health plans that were implemented before the Act was signed into law on March 23rd are exempt from many, but not all, of the law's consumer protections. The regulations seek to clarify how plans may qualify for and/or lose the grandfathered status.  Continue reading this entry at Littler's Healthcare Employment Counsel blog. 

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