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25 Mar 2024, 6:38 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  While UHG works to remediate and restore the operability and security of the Choice Health tools and systems, health plans, and insurers, their fiduciaries, plan sponsors, and fiduciaries should take timely and prudent steps in response to the breach and resulting disruptions to mitigate the exposure of their health plans, and themselves under HIPAA and ERISA. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the largest not-for-profit health system in Southeast Texas, Memorial Hermann Health System (MHHS) is paying to settle charges it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by issuing a press release with the name and other protected health information (PHI) about a patient without the patient’s prior HIPAA-compliant authorization under a Resolution Agreement and Corrective… [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 6:30 am by Michael B. Stack
Stack, CPA, Principal, Amaxx Risk Solutions, Inc. is an expert in employer communication systems and part of the Amaxx team helping companies reduce their workers compensation costs by 20% to 50%. [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]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While many excellent reasons may exist for a business to offer group health coverage for qualifying employees, all employers regardless of size considering offering group health coverage obtained through the SHOP or other sources should keep in mind that employers that establish and maintain group health coverage, the group health plans they establish and the company or persons with discretionary authority or responsibility for the maintenance, management… [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 4:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As companies that purchased health insurance and their employees or other individuals who received health insurance from certain Blue Cross Blue Shield entities wait to hear how to claim their share of the $2.67 billion In re: Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation private federal class action civil antitrust lawsuit settlement (“Settlement”) finally approved August 9, 2022 against the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (“BCBSA”) and other… [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her clients include public and private health care providers, health insurers, health plans, technology and other vendors, and others. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her clients include public and private health care providers, health insurers, health plans, technology and other vendors, and others. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 8:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to settle potential liability for potentially much higher Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) to OCR for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules violation charges under a voluntary resolution agreement illustrates the need for group health plans and their employer and other sponsors, fiduciaries, and vendors to make HIPAA compliance a key… [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 10:10 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Nov. 24, 2015)(holding Anthem entitled under ERISA to remove claims to federal court and refusing employee benefit plan participants’ motion to remand to state court state claims arising from data breach); In re Anthem, Inc. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 9:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Utilizing the flexibility resulting from the Coix Order could help reduce health plan costs of compliance with the HIPAA right of access rule by allowing the health plan and its records providers more freedom to determine the charges and format for delivering PHI in response to records requests received from other insurers, lawyers and other third parties. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 10:03 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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… [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 1:35 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
HFSA, HDHP & MSA, Adoption & Other Adjustments Impacting Cafeteria Plan Elections The Revenue Procedure announces a host of inflation adjustments that could impact employee’s 2024 cafeteria plan and health plan elections. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 10:35 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The $65,000 payment and corrective action plan commitments West Georgia Ambulance, Inc. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 8:48 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a living process that requires employer and other health plans, health insurers, health care providers and healthcare clearinghouses to recurrently reevaluate their HIPAA enterprise risk and timely act to mitigate security threats to electronic (ePHI) and other  protected health information and other HIPAA compliance concerns on an ongoing basis. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 6:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Feinstein Settlement Feinstein is a biomedical research institute organized as a New York not-for-profit corporation sponsored by Northwell Health, Inc., formerly known as North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, a large health system headquartered in Manhasset, New York comprised of 21 hospitals and over 450 patient facilities and physician practices. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 2:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Coupled with OCR’s Right of Access Rule settlement agreement with United Health Insurance Group last August, the latest settlement agreement sends a strong message to health plans and other Covered Entities about the risks of failing to deliver protected health information as required by the Right of Access Rule. [read post]