National Gag Clause Remembrance Day

A holiday for our life and regulatory times

I've got great news. There is a new standard with which health insurers and group health insurance plans will have to comply. I know that sounds like, to the casual reader, “ not a regular kind of holiday.”

And, normally, I would agree with you. But you know how I love compliance and transparency!

Something important is coming, a very special day, which will be a new national holiday. We have been celebrating it for years, on the same day, with this bullshit placeholder we called New Year's Eve, but this year, out with the old, in with the new disclosures and certifications of compliance with all appropriate regulations as they relate to group health plans! Quoting the National Law review:

Group health plans and health insurance issuers must attest that they are in compliance with the Anti-Gag Clause Provisions by submitting annually a Gag Clause Prohibition Compliance Attestation (GCPCA) to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury.  The initial GCPC…