title: Fine-Tuning the Impact of "Play or Pay" Strategies: Evaluating Compensation Adjustments.
abstract: One of the options available to employers under the Affordable Care Act is to drop health care coverage, pay a penalty and provide some form of additional compensation to employees. This article describes a process for evaluating this option, including considerations for establishing the amount of compensation to be provided, if any. It identifies a number of complexities and provides hypothetical examples of how employers might apply this option to employees with different salaries, ages and family statuses.
authors.forename: Elliot N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Dinkin
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States