Colleges and Health Care Reform

As employers, the nation’s universities and colleges are affected by the federal health care reform legislation enacted earlier this year. University administrators are grappling with a host of questions about the health care plans they offer employees. One of the early decisions for employers, including higher education institutions, is whether or how to retain “grandfathered” status for a plan. Such status means that a plan is exempt from some of the new law’s requirements if the employer does not make major changes to the plan, such as reducing benefits. A recent article from Inside Higher Ed discusses this and other issues in greater detail.