A bill recently filed in the U.S. House would delay, for one year, employer mandate provisions in the Affordable Care Act for large home health agencies.
 
The mandate currently takes effect next year for businesses with 100 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees. It requires businesses to offer quality, affordable health insurance to full-time employees or be penalized.
 
But Congressman Steve Daines, R-Mont., has filed The Ensuring Medicaid and Medicare Access to Providers Act, which would delay the mandate until Jan. 1, 2016 for health care providers that receive 60% or more of their revenue from Medicare and Medicaid, NAHC says.
 
Businesses with 50 to 99 full-time or full-time equivalent employees already will be able to wait until 2016 before offering insurance to full-time employees or be penalized.
 
The ACA doesn’t apply to businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees.