A Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision stopping employers from providing better health benefits to "highly compensated individuals" won't be enforced this year, according to a report from The New York Times.
The PPACA specifically prohibits employer-sponsored health plans from discriminating in favor of high-earning employees. Internal Revenue Service officials have decided not to enforce the requirement yet because they still need to issue regulations for employers. Questions such as how to define "highly compensated" workers and how to measure the value of health benefits still need to be answered, according to the report.
The delay is the latest in a line of PPACA policy changes such as the extension of the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan and the decision to allow health plans that don't meet the reform law's coverage requirements to continue through 2014. Last year, the Obama administration also delayed the PPACA employer mandate by one year to 2015.
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