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27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other group health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators and  individual and group health insurers should confirm their plan documents and practices comply with new additional guidance on when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preventive care mandates set forth in Public Health Services (PHS) Act section 2713, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) require… [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 2:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has more than 25 years experience advising these and other clients about these matters  and representing employer, employee benefit and other clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor, Immigration & Customs, Justice, and Health & Human Services, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, state labor, insurance, tax and attorneys’ general, and other agencies, private plaintiffs… [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
OCR announced the first OCR HIPAA settlement involving a wireless health services provider Monday, April 24. [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care providers, health plans, health insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, their business associates as well as all U.S. businesses and consumers should raise their cyber security defenses and use cyber security best practices to defend their information systems and data against ongoing WannaCry ransomware and other cyber security attacks in the United States and abroad in cyber security alerts issued by the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and… [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 6:10 am by Bill Marler
The City of Dallas Department of Environmental Health Services, the Dallas County Health and Human Services Department, and the U.S. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 3:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, their employer and other sponsors and fiduciaries, health insurers, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates should study and learn from the just announced, record-setting $16 million resolution agreement between health insurance giant, Anthem, Inc., to resolve Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) charges that Anthem, Inc. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 2:37 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her publications and insights appear in the Health Care Compliance Association, Atlantic Information Service, Bureau of National Affairs, World At Work, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insurance, the Dallas Morning News, Modern Health Care, Managed Healthcare, Health Leaders, and a many other national and local publications. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 9:35 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) charges it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule by failing to implement a security management process to safeguard electronic protected health information (ePHI). [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 8:06 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer works, publishes and speaks extensively on Affordable Care Act and other health and other employee benefit, insurance, human resources and health care matters. [read post]
31 May 2016, 4:05 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
When electronic protected health information is used or disclosed in violation of HIPAA, the Breach Notification Rules of HIPAA generally require Plans and their business associates timely notify impacted individuals and the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in accordance with the detailed requirements set forth in OCR’s implementing regulations. [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 9:13 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As Director of the Dallas District Nicholson will oversee and manage the EEOC’s work in more than 200 counties in north, central, and west Texas, including the district office and its approximately 100 employees. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 10:15 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Group health plans and group and individual health insurers (Health Plans) must add updating their 2017 Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) forms to their 2017 to do list in response to the publication by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor (DOL) and Treasury (collectively “Agencies) of enhanced content requirements for the 2017 Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) template and Uniform Glossary that the Patient… [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 10:15 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Group health plans and group and individual health insurers (Health Plans) must add updating their 2017 Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) forms to their 2017 to do list in response to the publication by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor (DOL) and Treasury (collectively “Agencies) of enhanced content requirements for the 2017 Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) template and Uniform Glossary that the Patient… [read post]
19 May 2010, 3:33 am by Bob Kraft
A division of the General Land Office hires private companies to run seven nursing homes for veterans and their spouses.And Health and Human Services Commission officials said they have made changes in how they review appeals from nursing home operators that contest violations documented by state regulators. [read post]
29 May 2013, 10:51 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Despite ACA’ amendments to HIPAA’s bona fide wellness program rules and the 11th Circuit’s rejection of an EEOC challenge in Broward County v. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 9:26 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The scribe for the American Bar Association (ABA) Joint Committee on Employee Benefits annual agency meeting with the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights,  Ms. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 12:57 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
“Encrypt your laptops and other mobile devices” is only one of the key lessons leaders of health plans, health care providers, health care clearinghouses (“Covered Entities”) and their business associates should take away from  the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR)’s April 22 announcement that Concentra Health Services… [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 12:03 pm by Michael Lowe
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services has just okayed the use of a new drug called Saboxone in treating heroin addition. [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… [read post]