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30 Mar 2016, 10:08 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  See Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) of 2014: Plain Language Summary of Statutory Changes. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 10:08 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  See Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) of 2014: Plain Language Summary of Statutory Changes. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 2:00 am by Jayne Navarre
Highly successful, younger corporations every day—think Zappos, Amazon, Apple, Southwest Airlines, and etc. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 6:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A just-announced $3.2 million Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) paid by Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (Children’s)  for failing to adequately secure electronic protected health information (ePHI) and correct other HIPAA compliance deficiencies teaches many key lessons for employer and other health plans and insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, healthcare providers and their business associates (“Covered… [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A $180,000 wrongful termination settlement that Foothill Packing, Inc. just paid to settle Department of Labor charges illustrates the potential Catch-22 tightrope that employers must walk when choosing between citizens and resident aliens with visas for hiring and firing decisions. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 10:07 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health Plans, Sponsors & Business Associates Should Verify Plan’s HIPAA Compliance Employers and other health plan sponsors and the health plan fiduciaries and business associates providing services involving dealings on behalf of the plan with protected health information just received another reminder to confirm and be prepared to prove all required business associate agreements are in place and that the health plans otherwise properly are administering all policies, practices,… [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 11:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers sponsoring health plans and members of their management named as plan fiduciaries or otherwise having input or oversight over the health plan should verify their company’s group health plan meets the out-of-pocket maximum rules of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) § 1302(c)(1) as well as a long list of other federal health benefit rules to minimize the risk that violations will compel the sponsoring employer to self-assess, self-report on IRS Form 8928, and… [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
By: Cynthia Marcotte Stamer Employers, health plans and individual taxpayers should be concerned about reports of deficiencies in the eligibility and enrollment tracking procedures of some health insurance exchanges or “marketplaces” created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are likely to identify individuals enrolling in health insurance coverage offered through the Healthcare.gov and certain state health insurance exchanges or “marketplaces” as… [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 10:07 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health Plans, Sponsors & Business Associates Should Verify Plan’s HIPAA Compliance Employers and other health plan sponsors and the health plan fiduciaries and business associates providing services involving dealings on behalf of the plan with protected health information just received another reminder to confirm and be prepared to prove all required business associate agreements are in place and that the health plans otherwise properly are administering all policies, practices,… [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Any HIPAA Entity that hasn’t already conducted a recent, appropriately documented enterprise wide risk analysis or updated their analysis in response to changes in equipment, vendors or emerging threats and developments should do so as soon as possible. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:01 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Misclassification of workers providing services as non-employees increasingly causes U.S. businesses to incur unanticipated FLSA and other wage and hour law liability for back pay, liquidated punitive damages, civil monetary penalties and other liability, in part because of WHD’s stepped up worker education, scrutiny, investigation, and enforcement challenging employers’ treatment of workers as non-employees. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other sponsors of non-grandfathered group health plans, their insurers, administrators and fiduciaries should adjust the co-payment, deductible and out of pocket limits applicable for the 2015 plan year to reflect the recent adjustment in the out-of-pocket limits on essential benefits allowed by that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) § 1302(c)(1). [read post]
31 May 2016, 4:05 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Well-known for her extensive work with health care, insurance and other highly regulated entities on corporate compliance, internal controls and risk management, her clients range from highly regulated entities like employers, contractors and their employee benefit plans, their sponsors, management, administrators, insurers, fiduciaries and advisors, technology and data service providers, health care, managed care and insurance, financial services, government contractors and… [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 9:38 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Regulations also require PCIPs to develop and apply operating procedures to prevent, detect, report to HHS and law enforcement and recover (when applicable or allowable) incidences of waste, fraud, and abuse and to cooperate with Federal law enforcement and oversight authorities in cases involving waste, fraud and abuse. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 12:11 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Meanwhile, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) also released updated guaranteed benefit amounts that will apply under the pension benefit guarantee programs it administers for 2015. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 11:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Under Code Section 6039D, businesses sponsoring group health plans are required to self-assess and pay excise taxes of up to $100 per day for each uncorrected violation of a specified list of federal health plan mandates by filing a Form 8928 when the business files its corporate or partnership tax return for the applicable taxable year. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 8:01 am
Box 198 Hebron, CT 06248 Phone: (860) 228-9496; (800) 832-4409 (Toll Free in CT) E-mail: sharonN@eastersealsofct.org Easter Seals Child Development Center 125 Broad Street Meriden, CT 06450 Phone: (203) 686-1438 E-mail: karencdc@snet.net Easter Seals Mobility Center 158 State Street Meriden, CT 06450 Phone: (203) 237-7835 E-mail: DanielleD@eastersealsofct.org Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center of Southeastern Connecticut, Inc. 152-Norwich-New London Turnpike Uncasville, CT 06382… [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 8:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Ranching businesses that employ foreign workers with H-2A VISAs to herd sheep, goats, cattle or other range livestock (“Herders”) should begin preparing to comply with significant changes in the Labor Department regulations governing the recruitment and employment of Herders made in the new Labor Department Final Regulation on Temporary Agricultural Employment of H-2A Foreign Workers in the Herding or Production of Livestock on the Range (Final Rule). [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In the face of these developments, health plans and their employer or other sponsors, health plan fiduciaries, health plan vendors acting as business associates and others dealing with health plans and their management should contact legal counsel experienced in these matters for advice and help about evaluating within the scope of attorney-client privilege the implications of the Resolution Agreement and other recent guidance on the adequacy and defensibility of their and their health… [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
    Subject to this cautionary proviso, the following are some of the activities that the Rule identifies as activities that might fall outside the Rule’s covered investment activities in the manner required by the Rule: “Education” as defined and provided in accordance with the Rule; “General communications that a reasonable person would not view as an investment recommendation;” Simply making available a platform of investment alternatives… [read post]