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22 Mar 2015, 3:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Recent examples of these updates include: New Excepted Benefits Final Rule May Allow Some Employers Limited Opportunity To Offer Individually Insured Wraparound Coverage Stamer, Others Discuss Fiduciary Challenges Arising From Health Plan Vendor Data Breaches On 4/2 Health Plans, Sponsoring Employers & Others Urged To Act Immediately In Response To Premera, Anthem Blue Cross Breaches Read Transcript of King v. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 4:44 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In October, 2020, OCR announced a resolution agreement with Aetna Life Insurance Company and affiliated covered entity (Aetna) where Aetna paid a $1 million resolution payment to settle potential HIPAA violations that arose from Aetna’s filing of hacking related breach reports in 2017 and OCR’s September 2021 announcement of a resolution agreement where Premera Blue Cross (PBC) agreed to pay $6.85 million to OCR (the second largest in OCR history) to settle… [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The heavy reliance by group health plans and health insurers upon internet based applications and portals to carry out online enrollment, claims administration and payment, reporting and a host of other key health plan functions makes it particularly important for health plans, their employer or other sponsors, fiduciaries, vendors, and other involved in health plan administration or using or accessing health plan data to verify and ensure the internet data sharing and other applications and portals… [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 1:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Since the Department of Labor Employee Benefit Security Administration (“EBSA”) now includes cybersecurity safeguards as a fiduciary responsibility and audits employee benefit plan cybersecurity as part of its fiduciary audits, the $1.3 million HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule  (“HIPAA”) resolution agreement health plan giant LA Care (“LACHP”) announced today by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights… [read post]