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6 May 2019, 5:44 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Under a new OCR Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan announced May 6, 2019, Touchstone Medical Imaging (“Touchstone”) must pay $3,000,000 to OCR and adopt a corrective action plan to settle OCR charges it violated HIPAA arising from an OCR investigation of Touchstone’s handling of a 2014 breach. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:23 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans must deliver electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) to electronic applications or software (“apps”) used by plan members, and are responsible under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules for the security of electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) on apps they sponsor or provide, according to new guidance from the Department of Health & Human Services… [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 7:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Wisconsin employer did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by ceasing to deduct union dues from employees’ paychecks for remittance to their certified union in response to Wisconsin’s enactment of a right-to-work law that curtailed dues checkoff, or communicating with employees about this action according the National Labor Relations Board ruling in Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 4:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Keeping unused or expired medication creates a host of risks for patients and others in their families and communities. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 12:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Labor Department has continued to enforce the joint employee rule using this Obama Era interpretation even after it withdrew the sub-regulatory guidance when the Administration invalidated and barred agencies from enforcing sub-regulatory guidance. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 2:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, businesses and their leaders generally will want to arrange for this work to be protected to the extent by attorney-client privilege, work product and other evidentiary protections against discovery by Department, employees or others for FLSA or other workforce enforcement actions. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 8:13 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, heavily involved in health benefit, health care, health, financial and other information technology, data and related process and systems development, policy and operations throughout her career, and scribe of the ABA JCEB annual Office of Civil Rights agency meeting, Ms. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 6:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
These findings suggest employers and communities can do many things to encourage their people to fit movement into their sedentary lifestyles. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 10:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
With 1 in 3 adult Americans at risk for Type 2 diabetes, the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) and other public and private organizations partnering in The National Diabetes Prevention Program are urging all Americans, their health plans, state and local agencies and communities to protect themselves and join their fight to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 12:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new policies, programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations; crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 7:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
   Employers that previously provided employee handbooks or other communications to employees containing explanations discussions of the implications of travel or relocation expenses inconsistent with the current tax rules also should take immediate steps to withdraw or correct those communications. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 4:28 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Instead, the Opinion adopts the position that once an eligible employee communicates a need to take leave for an FMLA-qualifying reason, neither the employee nor the employer may decline FMLA protection for that leave. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 3:25 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, businesses and their leaders generally will want to arrange for this work to be protected to the extent by attorney-client privilege, work product and other evidentiary protections against discovery by Department, employees or others for FLSA or other workforce enforcement actions. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 8:19 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also shares her thought leadership, experience and advocacy on these and other related concerns by her service in the leadership of the Solutions Law Press, Inc. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 5:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, heavily involved in health benefit, health care, health, financial and other information technology, data and related process and systems development, policy and operations throughout her career, and scribe of the ABA JCEB annual Office of Civil Rights agency meeting, Ms. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 7:29 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also shares her thought leadership, experience and advocacy on these and other related concerns by her service in the leadership of the Solutions Law Press, Inc. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 4:40 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, businesses and their leaders generally will want to arrange for this work to be protected to the extent by attorney-client privilege, work product and other evidentiary protections against discovery by Department, employees or others for FLSA or other workforce enforcement actions. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 3:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  In addition to recovering the single largest individual HIPAA settlement in history of $16 million with Anthem, Inc. [read post]