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If you have been in this industry more than a year, you have heard someone say the IRS tried to kill wellness reimbursement plans in 2023 and failed. I want to walk through what actually happened, because the version most of us carry around is wrong, and the wrong version is now a liability in at least two states.
By Mardy Gould
October 2026
Public article
Industry Intelligence
In 2026 two state legislatures stopped waiting. South Carolina and West Virginia passed laws that license the companies administering wellness reimbursement programs, and they wrote those laws with a very specific picture of what has been going wrong.
By Mardy Gould
October 2026
Public article
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