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3 Jan 2013, 12:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The program offers health care providers and organizations practical tips on ways to protect their patients’ health information when using mobile devices such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 10:02 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 OCR Quarter 1 2022 Cybersecurity Newsletter; Defending Against Common Cyber-Attacks; AI-Augmented Phishing and the Threat to the Health Sector; HHS 405d Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices on Email Phishing Attacks; Videos on “How the HIPAA Security Rule Can Help Defend Against Cyber-Attacks” in English and Spanish. [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]
5 Aug 2024, 12:22 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The more than $560,000 in civil monetary penalties (“CMPs”) collected since March by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) from three HIPAA-covered entities for failing to respond to medical record requests within 30 days as required by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) right of access rule (“Access Rule”) shows patients, their personal representatives and health… [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 3:15 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
§§ 164.502(a) and 164.530(c) by: Impermissibly disclosing the PHI of two identified patients to the film crew and other staff of “NY Med;” Failing appropriately and reasonably to safeguard its patients’ PHI from disclosure during the filming of “NY Med” on its premises; and Failing to implement policies, procedures, and practices to protect the privacy of the filming of  the television show. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 12:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Accordingly, taxpayers should seek advise from experienced legal counsel about the policies, practices, data and information they might be expected to need to respond to a IDR or other government investigation, recommendations for conducting their operations to promote their ability to efficiently assemble and produce the necessary data, records and other information to respond to a IDR or other investigation, audit or enforcement action, and other appropriate steps to position their… [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 2:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Statements of President Obama  made today (June 22, 2012) in celebration of the 13th anniversary of the June 22, 1999 Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 10:19 am by John Steele
The Commission has looked and issued papers about multi-jurisdictional practice, rules revisions, outside ownership of law firms, admission by motion, chioce of conflicts law, and other cutting edge issues. 7. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 7:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Wisconsin employer did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by ceasing to deduct union dues from employees’ paychecks for remittance to their certified union in response to Wisconsin’s enactment of a right-to-work law that curtailed dues checkoff, or communicating with employees about this action according the National Labor Relations Board ruling in Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 2:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has 25 years of leading edge experience helping employers; health and other employee benefit plans and their sponsors, administrators, fiduciaries; TPAs, insurers, governments, employee leasing, recruiting, staffing and other professional employment organizations; and others design, administer and defend innovative workforce, compensation, employee benefit  and management policies and practices. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 10:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has 25 years of leading edge experience helping employers; health and other employee benefit plans and their sponsors, administrators, fiduciaries; TPAs, insurers, governments, employee leasing, recruiting, staffing and other professional employment organizations; and others design, administer and defend innovative workforce, compensation, employee benefit  and management policies and practices. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 10:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has 25 years of leading edge experience helping employers; health and other employee benefit plans and their sponsors, administrators, fiduciaries; TPAs, insurers, governments, employee leasing, recruiting, staffing and other professional employment organizations; and others design, administer and defend innovative workforce, compensation, employee benefit  and management policies and practices. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 8:49 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Under the resulting WellPoint HIPAA Resolution Agreement, WellPoint must pay OCR a $1.7 million settlement payment as well as take a series of corrective actions to correct the deficiencies in its policies and practices that resulted in the reported breach to minimize future risks of breaches resulting from these deficient. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The updated SRA Tool jointly released by OCR and ONC on October 16, 2018 further reinforces the importance of complying with the enterprise wide risk assessment requirement while simultaneously encouraging and facilitating compliance by small to medium sized health care practices. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 3:27 am
Preston State RoundupAKØ DECIDED · [4-7] NEA-Alaska must face trial over fem's claims of HWE; order hereAZØ DECIDED · [4-10] Sunfire Glass hit w/ default judgment of $267K+ in EEOC sex harass suit that alleged the owner touched fems inappropriately, made obscene gestures, talked about their bodies and used vulgar language; EEOC press release hereCAØ … [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 12:24 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The recent US Ebola scare provided an important reminder to health care providers, health insurers and health plans, health care clearinghouses, employers and others of the importance of understanding and preparing to deal with health care privacy and other challenges arising from epidemics and other emergencies. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 8:50 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has 25 years of experience helping employers; employee benefit plans and their sponsors, administrators, fiduciaries; employee leasing, recruiting, staffing and other professional employment organizations; and others design, administer and defend innovative workforce, compensation, employee benefit  and management policies and practices. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 9:24 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has 25 years of leading edge experience helping employers; health and other employee benefit plans and their sponsors, administrators, fiduciaries; TPAs, insurers, governments, employee leasing, recruiting, staffing and other professional employment organizations; and others design, administer and defend innovative workforce, compensation, employee benefit  and management policies and practices. [read post]