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18 Nov 2018, 8:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Self-insured employer and union sponsored health plans, health insurers and other health care payers, health care providers, managed care and practice management service providers and others structuring or working with preferred provider or other managed health care contracts should weigh the potential implications on their health plan provider agreements and managed care practices of the antitrust lawsuit  jointly brought by the U.S. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Following on the heels of Monday’s announcement that Anthem, Inc. is paying a record setting $16 million to resolve charges its violations of the enterprise risk assessment and other requirements of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule allowed cybercriminals to breach the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of more than 79 million patients, physicians and other health care providers, health plans and health insurers, health care… [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]
10 Sep 2018, 7:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She regularly helps employer and other health benefit plan sponsors and vendors, health industry, insurers, health IT, life sciences and other health and insurance industry clients design, document and enforce plans, practices, policies, systems and solutions; manage regulatory, contractual and other legal and operational compliance; vendors and suppliers; deal with Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare/Medicaid Advantage, ERISA, state insurance law and other private payer rules and requirements;… [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 10:37 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Coupled with the Trump Administration’s recent rollout of its long promised association health plan, short-term coverage and other regulatory reforms and promises of more changes to come, the ongoing attention paid by the Administration and Congress  to health insurance and health care reform raises a strong possibility that employer, association, and other health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and their vendors that they and their plan members should be on watch for late-breaking… [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 2:23 pm
  While it is important to develop mechanisms for stressing what binds the allies, the importance of this reflex (one that ought to be practiced more often in fact than in form though these ridiculous communiques), it is as important to avoid reducing these critical meetings to little more than exercises in lowest common denominator communication. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 5:35 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Continuing Fallout of 2015 Data Breach Provides Many Lessons For Other Businesses & Their Health Plans The $2.3 million (Resolution Amount) data breach settlement and other post breach fallout now bankrupt radiation oncology and cancer care provider 21st Century Oncology, Inc. (21CO)  is experiencing after data thieves hacked into the names, social security numbers and other private health and financial data of more than 2,213,597 individuals illustrates why your company and its… [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 1:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also is a widely published author, highly popular lecturer, and serial symposia chair, who publishes and speaks extensively on human resources, labor and employment, employee benefits, compensation, occupational safety and health, and other leadership, performance, regulatory and operational risk management, public policy and community service concerns for the American Bar Association, ALI-ABA, American Healt [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has worked extensively throughout her career with health care providers, health plans and insurers, managed care organizations, health care clearinghouses, their business associates, employers, banks and other financial institutions, management services organizations, professional associations, medical staffs, accreditation agencies, auditors, technology and other vendors and service providers, and others on legal and operational compliance, risk management and compliance, public… [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has worked extensively throughout her career with health care providers, health plans and insurers, managed care organizations, health care clearinghouses, their business associates, employers, banks and other financial institutions, management services organizations, professional associations, medical staffs, accreditation agencies, auditors, technology and other vendors and service providers, and others on legal and operational compliance, risk management and compliance, public… [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As part of this process, covered entities should ensure they look outside the four corners of their Privacy Policies to ensure that appropriate training and clarification is provided to address media, practice transition, workforce communication and other policies and practices that may be covered by pre-existing or other policies of other departments or operational elements not typically under the direct oversight and management of the Privacy Officer such as media relations. [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]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A new Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) CardioNet Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan  (Resolution Agreement) settling OCR charges of violations of the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act against remote cardiac monitoring provider CardioNet provides important lessons for health plans, health insurers telemedicine and other healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses (Covered… [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
Health plans, their fiduciaries and sponsors, health insurers, health care providers, health care clearinghouses (“covered entities”) and their business associates must get and keep your business associate (BA) agreements (BAAs) in place, up- to-date, and readily available for inspection in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, 45 C.F.R. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 9:35 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN), a federally-qualified health center (FQHC), must pay $400,000 and implement a corrective action plan to resolve U.S. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 10:51 am by Jordan Brunner
Arab Bank, a new Alien Tort Statute case. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 1:05 am
Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodying the mass of a sun but smaller and faster than a speeding planet. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 12:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Stamer has worked extensively throughout her career with health care providers, health plans and insurers, managed care organizations, health care clearinghouses, their business associates, employers, banks and other financial institutions, management services organizations, professional associations, medical staffs, accreditation agencies, auditors, technology and other vendors and service providers, and others on legal and operational compliance, risk management and… [read post]