Benefits Compliance

Hands-on Support and National Expertise to Lift the Compliance Burden

Alera Group works with you to ensure you’re always in compliance as your business grows. We provide:

  • A national, in-house team of compliance experts that support clients of all sizes
  • ERISA, ACA, HIPAA and CAA related compliance support to help avoid regulatory audits or fines
  • Expert-led checklists and guidance to assist with understanding weak points and personalized action plans to fill gaps
  • Additional support through AleraHR and AleraDashboard for customized compliance support, reminders and assistance on demand
  • Vetted industry-leading partners for compliance-related services such as: ACA reporting, 5500 filings, COBRA administration, FMLA administration, NQTL analysis, RxDC reporting and more
  • Partnership with leading law firm, Barrow Weatherhead Lent LLP, for legal service referrals.

 

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EXPERT EDUCATION

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Employee Benefits

Preparing for Open Enrollment: How to Engage and Educate Your Employees on Their Total Benefits Package

In this session, our experts will share guidance on setting yourself up for success during Open Enrollment.

August 21, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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Employee Benefits

Legal Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2026

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2025-25, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2026 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility provisions and premium tax credit program.

July 23, 2025

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Legal Alert: Enforcement of the HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rule Vacated Nationwide

On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated a significant portion of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (“Final Rule”), which was implemented on April 24, 2024, on a nationwide basis. The Final Rule, which was implemented in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (effectively overturning Roe v. Wade), was intended to protect the ability of individuals to receive reproductive health care when the care is provided lawfully under the circumstances without risk of an individual’s identity or health information being disclosed for purposes of state criminal, civil or administrative investigations (or for imposing liability related to lawfully providing or obtaining reproductive healthcare).

July 21, 2025

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Legal Alert: Employee Benefits Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

On July 3, 2025, Congress passed a reconciliation bill (the “Reconciliation Act”) previously named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but subsequently redesignated “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.”

July 8, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Deadline for San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance is approaching

The annual San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (SF HCSO) reporting by employers that have employees who work in the City of or County of San Francisco is due by May 2, 2025. Employers should be aware of the upcoming deadline even if they are not located in San Francisco.



The SF HCSO requires large and medium-sized employers to provide covered employees with benefits equal to or greater than the expenditure rate. Covered employees are those who have been employed for more than 90 days and who regularly work at least eight hours per week within the City of and County of San Francisco.

April 14, 2025

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    Alera Group, Inc. is aware that there are persons fraudulently impersonating our company by using fake internet domains that appear to look like our legitimate services. If you are contacted by someone claiming to work for Alera Group, or any of our partners, please carefully review the email address and domain. If you have a relationship with our company, please contact us directly and not through any information that is provided in such an email. Please be extremely careful in responding to such emails with personal and financial information, sharing passwords, or any other information of value. Alera Group, or any of our partners, will never send ACH instructions via email and thus we strongly recommend that you verify the authenticity of each wire transfer request by calling your Alera Group contact using the number you have previously called.