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2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am
The 2/06/20 Proposed Rule would classify the portion of premium revenue that an insured health plan subject to the MLR rule expends on pharmacy costs as the actual reimbursement to pharmacies – minus any rebates or price concessions from manufacturers – no matter if the plan or its contracted PBM receives the price concession. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 7:29 am
Author of leading works on HIPAA and a multitude of other health care, health plan and other health industry matters, the American Bar Association (ABA) International Section Life Sciences Committee Vice Chair, a Scribe for the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) Annual OCR Agency Meeting and a former Council Representative, Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, former Vice President and Executive Director of the North Texas Health Care Compliance… [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:17 pm
Beyond her RPTE leadership involvements, these include her involvement as the Founder and Executive Director of the Coalition on Responsible Health Policy and its PROJECT COPE; Coalition on Patient Empowerment, a founding Board Member and past President of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence; former Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee; Vice Chair, Policy for the Life Sciences Committee of the ABA International… [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:02 pm
Beyond her RPTE leadership involvements, these include her involvement as the Founder and Executive Director of the Coalition on Responsible Health Policy and its PROJECT COPE; Coalition on Patient Empowerment, a founding Board Member and past President of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence; former Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee; Vice Chair, Policy for the Life Sciences Committee of the ABA International… [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:01 am
Notably, this was one of the 24 defendants indicted in the national take-down discussed below. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 7:04 am
Eric C. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 8:21 am
Stamer advises, represents and defends employers and other management clients and organizations; employer, union, multi-employer, association and other employee benefit plan plans, their sponsors, insurers and fiduciaries, plan administrators, administrative services, technology and other service providers, foreign and domestic governments, and others about employment and other services; health and welfare, pension, profit… [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 9:58 pm
Health plans and their health plan records providers and other business associates should review and update their existing policies and practices concerning providing and charging individuals for access to protected health information in response to modifications in the Department of Health & Human Service (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) rules implementing the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) requirements… [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 1:38 pm
February 28, 2020 is the new deadline for employers to comment on a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) proposal to exempt undergraduate and graduate students performing services for financial compensation in connection with their studies from the NLRB’s definition of “employee” for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and other collective bargaining and union organizing and representation laws under the NLRB’s… [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 6:33 pm
No business wants to get hit with a bill or judgement for unpaid overtime or other wages and penalties under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 10:35 am
While not topping this record, OCR during 2019 now has collected civil monetary penalties and resolution payments totaling more than $15 million from HIPAA Covered Entities and their business associates including: A $3 Million Resolution Payment from Cottage Health; A $3 Million Resolution Payment From A Tennessee Diagnostic Medical Imaging Services Company; A $100,000 Resolution Payment From An Indiana Medical Records Service Business Associate;… [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 10:03 am
District Court for the Southern District of New York today (December 17, 2019) against the nation’s largest long term care pharmacy provider, Omnicare, and its parent, CVS Healthcare Corporation may signal the advisability for insurers, fiduciaries, administrators and sponsors of insured and self-insured health and other benefit plans providing pharmacy benefits to tighten claims and audit past claims payments for prescription drug claims submitted by Omnicare and… [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 3:13 pm
These current CMP provisions provide the following rules for the assessment of CMPs for such violations: A minimum of$100 for each violation where the covered entity or business associate did not know and, by exercising reasonable diligence, would not have known that the covered entity or business associate violated such provision, except that the total amount imposed on the covered entity or business associate for all violations of an identical requirement or… [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 1:49 pm
Ten former National Football League (NFL) players face prosecution for their alleged roles in a nationwide health care fraud scam that Justice Department prosecutors allegedly defrauded the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan (the “Plan)” by submitting more than $3.9 million in false and fraudulent claims between June 2017 and December 2018. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 4:02 pm
The 2018 National Health Expenditures data and supporting information will appear here. [read post]
7 Dec 2019, 9:54 am
Author of leading works on HIPAA and a multitude of other health care, health plan and other health industry matters, the American Bar Association (ABA) International Section Life Sciences Committee Vice Chair, a Scribe for the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) Annual OCR Agency Meeting and a former Council Representative, Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, former Vice President and Executive Director of the North Texas Health Care Compliance… [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 12:28 pm
On October 2, 2019, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it awarded a cooperative agreement grant to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to establish an information-sharing system for drug compounding activities conducted in accordance with Section 503A of the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act (FDCA). [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 12:46 pm
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP), LegitScript, and Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) work together to provide information about pharmacies to consumers, with a key difference: these organizations treat any personal importation of drugs into the U.S. as illegitimate and harmful, even when it’s permitted under the… [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Campaigns Say They’ll Match Political Contributions. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 3:00 am
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is threatening to withhold support from party candidates who refuse to use WinRed, the GOP’s newly established online fundraising tool. [read post]
