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2 Jan 2024, 11:31 am by Nicole Pottroff
Or it could be publicly available award and government spending information acquired from SBA’s Dynamic Small Business Search (or DSBS) website, the USA Spending.Gov website, or another reputable federal government contracting website. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety Risk OSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety Panel NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule $1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight   10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund   NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair… [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 1:20 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A cloud technology company is in hot water with the Equal Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) for discriminating against a deaf applicant. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 10:11 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Group health plans and individual and group health insurance subject the federal No Surprises Act (“NSA”) are likely to experience continued delays in their ability to finalize certain claims liability determinations and pay providers for health claims submitted for arbitration under the NSA-established Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (“IDR”) medical claims review process as a result of an August 3, 2023 federal court ruling even as the federal agencies responsible for… [read post]
4 Aug 2023, 5:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Group health plans and individual and group health insurance subject the federal No Surprises Act may experience delays in their ability to finalize liability determinations and pay providers for health claims submitted for arbitration under federal surprise billing rules as a result of an August 3, 2023 federal court ruling. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 10:58 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety Risk OSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety Panel NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule $1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight   10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund   NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair… [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 10:40 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Columbia, Mississippi-based Singley Construction Company, Inc., faces an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) lawsuit that charges the employer violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) by failing to accommodate an employee’s disability by allowed ng her to undergo dialysis in its workplace and then retaliating against her for requesting the accommodation and filing a charge with the EEOC. [read post]
26 Jul 2023, 3:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) is changing its requirements for reporting occupational injury data electronically. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 1:26 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers should prepare to begin using a revised version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification  (“New Form I-9”) to verify the identity and eligibility of workers to work in the United States as soon as possible after the New I-9 becomes available on August 1, 2023, and no later than November 1, 2023. [read post]
17 Jul 2023, 1:45 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Out-of-state employers, insurers, employee benefit plan vendors, and other businesses registered to do business in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, or another state that requires that out-of-state businesses consent to jurisdiction as a condition of their registration to do business in the state face a heightened risk of getting hauled into court in the consent to jurisdiction state following last month’s Supreme Court decision in Mallory v. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 9:44 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety Risk OSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety Panel NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule $1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight   10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund   NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair… [read post]
24 May 2023, 5:16 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A newly announced Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) settlement agreement with a medical practice manager business associate highlights the need for health plans and other HIPAA covered entities ensure servers are properly secured and that that they and every third party administrator, technology, audit, accounting and other plan service provider with access to protected health… [read post]
17 May 2023, 11:05 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Updated guidance published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) warns employers that the end of the COVID-19 health care emergency did not automatically end employers’ responsibilities to provide accommodations granted during the COVID-19 health care emergency, to consider new requests for accommodation from applicants or employees claiming disability from COVID-19 or other pandemic related conditions, or to comply with the medical confidentiality, interference… [read post]
15 May 2023, 1:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
An Austin, Texas bar faces an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) lawsuit after allegedly firing a worker for being pregnant. [read post]
4 May 2023, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety Risk OSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety Panel NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule $1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight   10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund   NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair… [read post]
3 May 2023, 7:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety Risk OSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety Panel NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule $1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight   10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund   NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair… [read post]
1 May 2023, 12:27 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Group health plans and insurers must ensure their programs don’t violate the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) by improperly limiting or excluding coverage for treatment of autism or mental therapy developmental disorders. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 6:19 pm by Ben Vernia
On February 7, the Department of Justice released its accounting of fraud recoveries and accomplishments for fiscal year 2022 (ending last September 30). [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 11:00 am by Shane McCall
For both awards, NRFL planned to use a company called Lightforce USA as its subcontractor. [read post]