5 Ways CIOs Need to Prepare for Obamacare

5. Investigate Your Level of Healthcare ReportingReporting Alles zu Reporting auf CIO.de

Large companies will need to take another look at their level of healthcare reporting, including which data fields are captured and stored. New requirements force employers to make Social Security number and wages of employees easy to access yet secure, says Joanne Hanson Pearson, an attorney at Pierce Atwood in Maine. (This data is used in part to help determine if an individual, couple or family meets the criteria for subsidized insurance under Obamacare.)

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Part of the complexity, she says, is that the level of reporting changes from one company to the next based on its size and market. It also changes based on the state exchanges and existing healthcare offerings available to residents.

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