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Any policy or rule that exempts a group of individuals, organizations, or drugs from meeting new standards or regulations—e.g., when a new subspecialty board in internal medicine is created, the physicians practising in that area may be ‘grandfathered’ into the subspecialty and not required to meet residency or other educational requirements

grandfather clause

Any policy or rule that exempts a group of individuals, organizations, or drugs, from meeting new standards or regulations; eg when a new subspecialty board in internal medicine is created, the physicians practicing in that area may be 'grandfathered' into the subspecialty and not required to meet residency or other educational requirements

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To keep grandfathered status after switching carriers or policies, an employer must show the new carrier that the new plan will be similar enough to the old plan to qualify for grandfathered status, officials say.

Grandfathers can shop around

The Regulations provide that if any of the following changes are made to a group health plan, the plan will lose its grandfathered status:

National Health Care Reform: The Keys to Maintaining Grandfathered Status (If Desired) and Upcoming Notice Obligations

Some organizations representing employers have submitted comment letters requesting changes in the interim regulations regarding grandfathered status.

Heading into open enrollment, companies adjust health plans

That's up to you, but my guess is that the extra amount most companies would pay to maintain their grandfathered status year after year will be more than they would pay by going with one of the new plans.

Is grandfather dead?

Details on the routine changes insurers and employers can make without losing their grandfathered status and the projected impact on large and small employer plans are highlighted in the administration's Fact Sheet: Keeping the Health Plan You Have: The Affordable Care Act and "Grandfathered" Health Plans (www.Healthreform.gov/newsroom/keeping_the_health_plan_you_have.html).

Administration releases new health care rules: the regulations could make it harder for companies to retain their current health plan

The interim final regulations estimate that approximately 51 percent of all employer plans will lose their grandfathered status by the end of 2013.

New rules provide health plan guidance

It first looked to determine if Congress had spoken directly to the question of whether the exercise, release or lapse of a GPA granted under a grandfathered GSTT-exempt trust was a "transfer under the trust" for purposes of TRA '86 Section 1433(b)(2)(A).

TC upholds GSTT Regs

Over the years, the Service has issued numerous rulings on changes that will cause a trust to lose its grandfathered status.

Grandfathered trust modification permitted

A plan can qualify for grandfathered status by showing that it is roughly the same today as it was before March 23, 2010, when PPACA was signed into law.

Proskauer Rose: Feds Are Auditing PPACA Compliance

"A number of those people who would be grandfathered got their apartments because they knew the unit was protected and the owner did not.

Suburban groups fighting co-op tenant protections

The regulations, however, appear to give all such pre-January 16 arrangements permanent "grandfather" status, barring "substantial modification." Further, arrangements involving partnerships in place prior to March 23, 1998 are also grandfathered. If, however, a grandfathered arrangement is "substantially" modified, its protected status is revoked.

Regulations issued for Notice 98-11

In years in which an excess distribution was made, the regulations provided two alternative methods to recover the grandfathered amount--the discretionary method and the attained age method.