Buck Consultants Explains Recent ACA Contraceptive Coverage Guidance

In a recent article, "Departments Provide Guidance on Contraceptive Coverage Mandate for Religious Employers", Buck Consultants Explains that:

"On August 22, 2014, the Departments issued new guidance that takes into account the recent and highly publicized US Supreme Court decisions in the Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College cases involving employers with religious objections to providing coverage for certain contraceptive services. In interim final rules, the Departments set forth an alternate process for religious nonprofit entities to obtain relief from the contraceptive coverage mandate. The Departments also proposed definitions for the types of closely held for-profit employers with religious objections that can avail themselves of regulatory relief from this mandate. This latest guidance is of interest to employers with religious objections to providing employees with coverage for contraceptive services."

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