New Obamacare rules: IRS won’t let wellness help with ‘affordability’

By Jared Bilski

A number of prominent wellness advocates, as well the ERISA Industry Committee, had previously asked the IRS to count incentives earned through wellness programs toward employers’ “affordability” calculations under the Affordable Care Act. The agency’s response: Nope.

Well, mostly no. With the release of the latest Obamacare regs, the feds have effectively said that wellness incentives won’t count toward determining whether employees have been offered “affordable healthcare coverage” unless the incentive is earned through a smoking-cessation program.

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