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21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm 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 obligate the sponsoring employer to self-assess, self-report on IRS Form 8928, and… [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]
18 Aug 2015, 7:52 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan includes eliminating class-based and other recruitment and hiring practices that discriminate against people with disabilities and other classes protected under federal employment discrimination laws among its top six national priorities. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 8:49 am by Bill Marler
Salmonella bacteria are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces or foods that have been handled by infected food service workers who have practiced poor personal hygiene. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 2:29 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer works with U.S. and foreign businesses, governments, trade associations, and others on workforce, social security and severance, health care, immigration, privacy and [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]
28 Jul 2015, 8:05 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer is recognized nationally and internationally for her practical and creative insights and leadership on HIPAA and other health and other employee benefit, human resources, and related insurance, health care, privacy and data security and tax matters and policy. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 11:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
If a business sponsored a health plan that violated the ACA claims and appeals rules or any other health plan rule subject to the Form 8928 filing requirement in 2014 or thereafter, the business should take prompt, well-documented actions to self-correct the violation or timely must file the required Form 8929 and pay the applicable $100 per violation per day excise tax since proof of good faith efforts to maintain compliance, proof of self-correction, or both… [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 10:52 am by Kathy Kreps
By Kathy Kreps Thanks to Porter Wright Summer Associate Carolyn Alford for her assistance in preparing this blog post. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Obviously, health plans, business associates and other parties at minimum, should evaluate and address the adequacy of their own health plan security safeguards, practices and procedures impacting internet access and sharing of ePHI by and between the health plan, its workforce, business associates, sponsoring or contributing employers and others. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 2:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Administration claims that the Proposed Rule is needed to workers and their employers with greater “clarity” about when workers qualify for overtime. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 10:53 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  This compares to BLS showing that in March 2014, In March 2014, total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged $29.99 per hour worked, with wages and salaries averaging $20.96 per hour (69.9 percent) and benefits averaging $9.03 per hour (30.1 percent). [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:25 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel and Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Ms.Stamer is recognized nationally and internationally for her practical and creative insights and leadership on health and other employee benefit, human resources and insurance matters and policy. [read post]
6 May 2015, 7:09 pm by Jon Gelman
Burton Jr.Statement on Workers Compensation: Recent Developments in Illinois and in the Nation John F. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 6:46 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
The 2008 decision in BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debentureholders clarified that the duty of the directors is to the corporation. [read post]
In addition, historically, organizations may not have been able to draw value from the data that they held, particularly where such data were unstructured (and Gartner Inc. estimates that roughly 80 per cent of all corporate data is unstructured). [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 3:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer works with U.S. and foreign businesses, governments, trade associations, and others on workforce, social security and severance, health care, immigration, privacy and data security, tax, ethics and other laws and regulations. [read post]