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10 May 2022, 6:17 am by Kelly Shivery
TriMark and Its Subsidiaries Admit to SBA Fraud TriMark, USA, LLC, based in Massachusetts, provides kitchen and food service equipment to government customers. [read post]
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to submitting fraudulent disaster-related loan benefits in the form of SBA-sponsored EIDL and PPP loans. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 1:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
Universal savings accounts (USAs) would apply the proper tax treatment to saving in general, with only one layer of taxation at the time of either contribution or withdrawal. [read post]
20 Feb 2022, 12:56 pm by Craig R. Tractenberg
The SBA and lenders screened Burgerim before approving loans, but they could not have sounded a siren before an alarming default had occurred. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 9:16 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Earlier this week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced that employee benefit plan participants that already took a required minimum distribution (RMD) in 2020 from certain retirement accounts now has the opportunity through August 31, 2020 to roll those funds back into a retirement account following the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act RMD waiver for 2020. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 5:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While most COVID-19 test results won’t draw the widespread coverage and public interest that Elliott’s diagnosis did, businesses generally and health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses specifically need to recognize that coverage of the Elliott outrage will heighten awareness and therefore their need to properly handle and protect COVID-19 or other infectious disease and other testing, diagnosis, treatment and other medical and disability information collected or… [read post]
5 May 2020, 2:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety Risk OSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety Panel NLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule $1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight   10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund   NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair Labor Practice… [read post]
Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) wrote a similar letter to the Treasury Department and the SBA, requesting additional information on dispersal of PPP funds, including asking how SBA prioritizes lenders’ requests for funding. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 7:56 am by Kristian Soltes
And It’s Expensive.PaymentsSource PayThink – April 9, 2020 With the EMV liability shift date for automated fuel dispensers (AFD) looming, subject to any last-minute changes, we are seeing major changes at fuel sites across the USA. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 5:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union-sponsored health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators should heed the reminder of the importance of ensuring their health plans properly comply in form and operation with the mental health and substance abuse parity mandes of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)  in when the  U.S. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 12:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and containment efforts has many businesses flailing to reconfigure their staffing and other business models even as Congress is preparing to impose paid COVID related leave mandate on employers with less than 500 employees. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 5:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
DOJ Omnicare/CVS Suit Highlights Potential Pharmacy Benefit Claims Abuse Exposure For Health Plans, Member Safety RiskOSHA Seeks Small Business Volunteers For Tree Care Safety PanelNLRB Restores Pre-Obama Era Union Dues Checkoff Rule$1.6M HIPAA Penalty Largely Caused By Inadequate Security Assessments & Oversight  10 Former NFL Payers Charged With Defrauding NFL Retiree Health Fund  NLRB Order Directs Settlement Of McDonald’s Unfair Labor Practice… [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 2:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Following up on the White House’s announcement yesterday that by major health insurers, Medicare and Medicaid to cover medically necessary testing and expand coverage for treatment of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“coronavirus), without applying deductibles or coinsurance and offer expanded telemedicine and other coverage for coronavirus care, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) today issued guidance giving health plans confirming health plans waiving deductibles won’t… [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 2, 2020) is the deadline for employers and other health benefit program sponsors, insurers, plan administrators and fiduciaries, health care providers, PBMs and other interested persons to comment on proposed federal rule change that would require insured health plans to count drug rebates and price concessions retained by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as administrative expenses for purposes of determining if the issuing insurer is required to rebate premiums under the medical loss… [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 7:29 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 2, 2020) is the last day to submit comments on Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2021; Notice Requirement for Non-Federal Governmental Plans Proposed Rule” (“Proposed Rule”) published by HHS on February 6. 2020. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 8:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Defined benefit and other plan sponsors, fiduciaries, administrators, and their legal counsel and other service providers should review a new Pension Benefit Guarantee Final Regulation on Miscellaneous Corrections, Clarifications, and Improvements scheduled for publication tomorrow (February 4, 2020) that will make various key changes to the PBGC’s current regulations on n Reportable Events and Certain Other Notification Requirements, Annual… [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 9:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and their health plan records providers and other business associates should review and update their existing policies and practices concerning providing and charging individuals for access to protected health information in response to modifications in the Department of Health & Human Service (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) rules implementing the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) requirements regarding… [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 1:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
February 28, 2020 is the new deadline for employers to comment on a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) proposal to exempt undergraduate and graduate students performing services for financial compensation in connection with their studies from the NLRB’s definition of “employee” for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and other collective bargaining and union organizing and representation laws under the NLRB’s jurisdiction. [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 6:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
No business wants to get hit with a bill or judgement for unpaid overtime or other wages and penalties under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). [read post]