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Employer Reporting Required for Health Care Coverage

The Affordable Care Act requires employers to give a notice to employees of coverage options available through the Health Insurance Marketplace.

Employers are required to provide the notice to:

1. Existing employees - provide the notice not later than October 1, 2013. 
2. For new employees - at the time of hiring beginning October 1, 2013.(There is a 14 day grace period for 2014 hires). 

The notice is required to be provided automatically, free of charge.

The notice must be provided in writing in a manner calculated to be understood by the average employee. It may be provided by first-class mail. Alternatively, it may be provided electronically.

Sample forms for notifying employees of their options for Health Insurance Coverage are provided below: 

1. Employers who currently offer Health Care coverage:  sample form with coverage , spanish version

2. Employers not offering Health Care coverage: sample form without coverage, spanish version

 

Source: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/healthreform/index.html 

 

Note: Click here to learn more about other provisions of the act.