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17 Apr 2020, 7:55 am by Staff Attorney
  Labelle discloses that he operates out of a d/b/a called Gulf Coast Wealth Advisors and is also affliated with other businesses including Labelle & Associates and Gulf Coast Insurance Group. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 6:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Some suggestions include: Structuring meetings, job duties and other activities to require or encourage sedentary workers to stand up, walk and move around periodically throughout the day; Providing access to walking sidewalks, trails and other places workers can walk and encouraging workers to use them; Encouraging workers to walk or take public transportation to lunch or other meetings when feasible rather than drive; Encouraging people to walk and talk rather than sitting while holding… [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 8:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
It should be noted that steering, and commitments to steer and not to steer patients to various providers are a longstanding and key component of the structure of most preferred provider contracts used in the managed care industry. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 8:47 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Likewise, improperly structured expense reimbursement policies or practices can bump up overtime pay liability by requiring the employer to include otherwise excludable expense reimbursements payments in the hourly rate of pay when calculating regular and overtime pay. [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also shares her thought leadership, experience and advocacy on these and other concerns by her service in the leadership of a broad range of other professional and civic organization including her involvement as the Vice Chair of the North Texas Healthcare Compliance Association; Executive Director of the Coalition on Responsible Health Policy and its PROJECT COPE: Coalition on Patient Empowerment; former Board President of the early childhood development intervention agency, The Richardson… [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While Congress and the Trump Administration continue to ponder and debate what if anything to do with the health care reforms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), employer and other health plan sponsors, health plan insurers, plan fiduciaries and others responsible for health plan design, administration or funding must take steps to verify their past and continuing compliance with the ACA and other federal mandates while laying the groundwork to respond quickly to any eventual… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 5:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
CCDH Sanctions For Violation Of HIPAA Business Associate Agreement Rules The CCDH Resolution Agreement arises from violations of this requirement that OCR says it discovered as a result of a compliance review conducted in response to an OCR investigation of a CCDH business associate, FileFax, Inc. [read post]
31 May 2016, 4:05 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
These laws generally are structured either to directly require self-insured Plans to disclose the claims data directly, indirectly compel the disclosure by requiring third party administrators of such Plans to disclose the claims information for Plans they administer, or both. [read post]
6 May 2016, 11:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  President Obama already has used his executive powers to expand paid family and medical leave rights for federal government workers, to add paid leave mandates to federal contracting regulations and contracts applicable to government contractors, and otherwise Even for the millions of employers that already voluntarily provide paid leave, the enactment of additional federal or state paid leave mandates inevitability will limit employer flexibility to structure its… [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other employee benefit plan sponsors, benefit plan committees and fiduciaries, and the broker-dealers, financial advisors, insurance agents and other plan service providers that provide investment-related platforms, advice, recommendations or other services for employee benefit plans need to reevaluate the fiduciary status of their service providers and begin restructuring as necessary their associated relationships, service provider commission or other compensation, service agreements… [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other employee benefit plan sponsors, benefit plan committees and fiduciaries, and the broker-dealers, financial advisors, insurance agents and other plan service providers that provide investment-related platforms, advice, recommendations or other services for employee benefit plans need to reevaluate the fiduciary status of their service providers and begin restructuring as necessary their associated relationships, service provider commission or other compensation, service agreements… [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 3:12 pm by Steven Boutwell
Apparently, the wells had already been plugged and abandoned, and all that remained was to permanently remove the structure from the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Since prompt self-audit and correction can help mitigate these liabilities, business leaders should act quickly to engage experienced legal counsel for their companies for advice about how to audit their group health plan’s 2014 and 2015 compliance with the out-of-pocket limit and other federal health plan rules within the scope of attorney client privilege while managing fiduciary exposures that could result if the audit is improperly structured or conducted, as well as options for… [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 11:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Burwell Decision;  More Work For Employers, Benefit Plans Following SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; 2016 & 2017 Health Plan Budgets, Workplans Should Anticipate Expected Changes To SBCs; Since prompt self-audit and correction can help mitigate these liabilities, business leaders should act quickly to engage experienced legal counsel for their companies for advice about how to audit their group health plan’s 2014 and 2015 compliance with the out-of-pocket limit… [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]