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23 Oct 2019, 5:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, health plans, health insurers and other health care providers and their business associates should construe the JHS civil monetary penalty as evidence of the need to re-verify and remain constantly vigilant about maintaining compliance with HIPAA’s privacy, security and breach notification rules currently and on an ongoing basis. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 11:31 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Coalition for Responsible Health Policy, its PROJECT COPE: Coalition on Patient Empowerment, and a broad range of other professional and civic organizations including North Texas Healthcare Compliance Association, a founding Board Member and past President of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence, past Board Member and Board Compliance Committee Chair for the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas; former Board President of the early childhood development intervention agency, The… [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 3:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Given the growth in both the frequency and success of these challenges, businesses using contingent workforce workers generally should (1) realistically reevaluate their potential exposure to minimum wage and overtime liability from services received from contingent workers; and (2) pursue opportunities to mitigate these exposures by reconfiguring these relationships, contracting for assurances and access to documentation necessary to prove that the contingent workforce provider properly… [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
[We're moving this up, because we've received an updated version of the program. [read post]
9 May 2019, 8:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In addition to the Rule, HHS continues to review a number of other rules and proposals it hopes to further advance the American Patients First blueprint initiative to improve drug price transparency and inform consumer decision making by fixing opaque systems, changing incentives that drive costs or other undesirable behaviors by pharmaceutical companies, prescription benefit management (“PBM”) companies, health insurers and plans, providers and patients. [read post]
1 May 2019, 4:39 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The owner of a Greenville, Ohio, glass company faces sentencing to up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine in addition to paying $500,000 plus in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) after she plead guilty to failing to truthfully account for and pay employment taxes. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 6:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Maybe it’s time for your company to add short movement recesses to its employees’ day to capitalize on these benefits. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 8:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers that pay or considering paying hourly workers different hourly rates for different categories of work within the same work week should evaluate these compensation practices in light of a new December 21, 2018 Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) opinion letter that evaluated the FLSA minimum wage and overtime compliance of one such arrangement. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:01 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
According to the Labor Department, misclassified employees are often denied access to critical benefits and protections, such as family and medical leave, overtime, minimum wage and unemployment insurance and other rights. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 4:41 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and insurers, their service providers that act as business associates within the meaning of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and employer and other health plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and other management leaders should heed the warnings contained in the new Resolution Agreement (FileFax Resolution Agreement) with former HIPAA business associate FileFax, Inc. announced by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of… [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
(pix credit; here)The Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has just been posted to the UN's website. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 8:54 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers relying on workers within these industries should re-evaluate and update as necessary their existing budgeting, hiring, recruitment and retention, trade secret, noncompetition and other policies and practices to proactively position their companies to effectively compete to ensure they retain and recruit the necessary workers to operate effectively. [read post]
5 May 2017, 6:55 am
Quality of Life In Cuba, while a longer life span can be interpreted as a succes of the welfare state, there is also evidence that a significant portion of older adults lacks effective opportunities to enjoy a dignified old age. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 1:04 pm by Roshonda Scipio
Fontham.Fontham, Michael R.Boulder, CO : National Institute for Trial Advocacy, (c) 2013.KF8915 .F64 2013 Evidence Lights, camera, evidence! [read post]