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6 Oct 2017, 1:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Beyond helping their workforce understand and cope with the news, many businesses and employee benefit plans also face the added headache of needing to investigate and respond to concerns about their own potential responsibilities to provide breach notification or take other actions. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Based on experiences reported in the MHHS and other similar resolution agreements, Covered Entities also generally will want to ensure that their policies, procedures and training extend to all potential sources of communications that could involve patient information and make clear that the Privacy Rule restrictions must be followed even if the circumstances involve allegations of misconduct, special performance by healthcare providers or others that it would benefit the organization or… [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
CardioNet subsequently notified OCR of a second breach of ePHI 2,219 individuals, respectively. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 2:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In keeping with its announced policy of investigating all breach reports impacting 500 or more individuals, OCR opened an investigation into UMMC’s breach report. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 12:23 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A list of each agency’s individual penalty adjustments is available here. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 6:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
“For individuals to trust in the research process and for patients to trust in those institutions, they must have some assurance that their information is kept private and secure. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Separately, on August 25, 2014, SEMC submitted notification to HHS OCR regarding a breach of unsecured ePHI stored on a former SEMC workforce member’s personal laptop and USB flash drive, affecting 595 individuals. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 3:47 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Obama’s lame duck presidency and other factors could impact each Party’s ability to pursue its agenda Share tips management leaders can use to help monitor developments and to help shape legislation, regulation and enforcement through Dallas HR, SHRM and other organizations as well as individually; Learn tips for anticipating and maintaining flexibility to respond to legislative, regulatory and enforcement developments; and More To register or get more details about the program,… [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 3:29 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Privacy requirements also can be a challenge under these laws unless information collected from screening and other wellness and disease management activities is carefully collected, routed and handled to comply with HIPAA, GINA and other privacy rules. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A week before the September 23, 2013 deadline for all health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates to have updated their business associate agreements to comply with the Final Omnibus HIPAA Rule, the Department of Health & Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today (September 16, 2013) released Model Notices of Privacy Practices (Notices)… [read post]
31 Aug 2013, 10:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  A taxpayer will be obligated to pay the individual shared responsibility tax under Internal Revenue Code Section 5000A for any non-exempt individual the taxpayer claims on his or her individual tax return as a dependent who is not exempt or enrolled in minimum essential coverage. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 6:52 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union group health plan sponsors and insurers of group and individual health plans (Health Plans) agonizing over 2014 plan design decisions are running out of time. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 12:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Affinity estimated in its breach report that up to 344,579 individuals may have been affected by this breach. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 3:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  It claims that Omnibus Express violated the INA by actively discouraging or failing to consider the applications of many qualified U.S. citizens and other protected individuals between September 2012 to February 2013 while at the same time petitioning the U.S. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 11:31 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Because security precautions generally delay delivery of mail to members of Congress for 7-10 days, concerned individuals generally are encouraged to contact the Committee or other members of Congress via fax or e-mail. [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 1:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The PCORI fee is just one of a number of new fees and costs that ACA imposes upon employers and individuals as part of the health care reforms enacted under ACA. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 3:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Beyond having an appropriate understanding of what individuals are considered common law employees, businesses also should seek to track accurately all hours worked, regardless of whether the employees are non-exempt workers that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires the employer pay hourly, or exempt employees under the FLSA that the employer pays on a salaried, commission or other non-hourly basis. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 12:28 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Announced Grants Target Increased CHIP & Medicaid Enrollment In Preparation For Health Care Marketplace In amounts ranging from $190,000 to $1 million out of the $140 million included in the Affordable Care Act and the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 for enrollment and renewal outreach,  HHS Reports the grants awarded to the grantees listed here focus on 5 areas: Engaging schools in outreach, enrollment and retention activities (9… [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 6:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  See GAO Report and  GAO Report such as:: 17 states committed to run their own exchanges have missed March 2013 deadlines on 44% of key activities; Officials creating the small business exchanges still must review plans and train and certify the “navigators” that are supposed to help companies and individuals enroll in plans and complete other key arrangements; A federal  the “data hub” designed to help individuals determine their… [read post]