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19 Aug 2019, 11:58 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Highly valued for her rare ability to find pragmatic client-centric solutions by combining her detailed legal and operational knowledge and experience with her talent for creative problem-solving, Ms. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 3:25 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers concerned about minimum wage, overtime and other liability from the Proposed Salary Threshold Rule (“Proposal”) that if adopted will increase the minimum salary for the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) “white collar” overtime exemption from $23,660 annually to $35,308 annually. [read post]
11 May 2018, 3:22 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The 2018 maximum deductible Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for individuals with family coverage under a high deductible health plan (HDHP) is $6,900, rather than the lower $$6850 limitation that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Treasury originally identified as the 2018 maximum deduction amount last March. [read post]
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 non-grandfathered group health plans to cover… [read post]
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 non-grandfathered group health plans to cover… [read post]
15 May 2014, 10:00 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has served as the  scribe for the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits agency meeting with OCR. [read post]
8 Aug 2014, 5:40 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also regularly represents clients and works with Congress and state legislatures, EBSA, IRS, EEOC, OCR and other HHS agencies, state insurance and other regulators, and others. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 3:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A federal lawsuit against Houston-based bus company Autobuses Ejecutivos LLC, d/b/a Omnibus Express, reminds U.S employers hiring foreign workers under the H-2B or other special worker visa programs to use care to ensure that they can prove that their need for foreign workers is not the result of recruitment and hiring practices that illegally discriminate against work-eligible members of the U.S. workforce already in the United States. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 2:11 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also regularly represents clients and works with Congress and state legislatures, EBSA, IRS, EEOC, OCR and other HHS agencies, state insurance and other regulators, and others. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 5:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also regularly works with OCR, FTC, USSS, FBI and state and local law enforcement on privacy, data security, health care, benefits and insurance and other matters, publishes and speaks extensively on medical and other privacy and data security, health and managed care industry regulatory, staffing and human resources, compensation and benefits, technology, public policy, reimbursement and other operations and risk management concerns. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 9:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  By exercising its discretion to waive the 90-day notice period, the EBSA allowed JP Morgan Chase Bank NA and ADP Inc. to terminate immediately and wind up approximately 180 defined contribution pension plans abandoned due to corporate crises or neglect. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 6:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Employee Benefits News, the editor and publisher of Solutions Law Press HR & Benefits Update and other Solutions Law Press Publications, and active in a multitude of other employee benefits, human resources and other professional and civic organizations. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 3:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) yesterday (July 10, 2013) shared its first “formal” guidance officially implementing the Obama Administration’s decision to delay until 2015 enforcement of certain of the employer shared responsibility or “pay-or-play” rules of new Internal Revenue Code (Code) Section 4980H first informally announced by Department of Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Mark Mazar in this July 2 Blog. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 4:07 am by Kevin LaCroix
  For example, the OCR reached a settlement with QCA Health Plan, Inc. involving a stolen laptop with unencrypted PHI of only 148 people. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 6:52 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union group health plan sponsors and insurers of group and individual health plans (Health Plans) agonizing over 2014 plan design decisions are running out of time. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 4:39 am by Rob Robinson
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23 Dec 2011, 8:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Businesses Face Rising Disability Discrimination Enforcement Risks; New Obama Administration Affirmative Action Guidance Highlights Organization’s Need To Tighten Nondiscrimination Practices; OFCCP Proposed Increased Disability Hiring Targets, Other Tougher Government Contractor Rules another Sign Of Rising Employment Discrimination Risks;  Incentives To Get Employee Into Wellness Education Requires Legal Risk Management; New School Racial Accommodation Guidance… [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 11:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers sponsoring group health plan coverage now or in 2014, check the adequacy of your insurer or third party administrator’s claims and appeals processes and notices. [read post]
26 May 2013, 1:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Therefore, When reviewing these and other proposed “solutions,” health plan sponsors and fiduciaries, insurers, administrators, brokers and others should ensure that arrangements and their proposed products in form and in structure in fact meet all requirements for characterization and use in the way proposed and that the users fully understand all compliance and liability obligations resulting from the proposed arrangements both in its free-standing form, and… [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 4:24 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Affordable Care Act To Require Health Plans Cover Contraception & Other Women’s Health Procedures Beginning In 2012 Contraception Mandate Might Not Apply To Certain Religious Employer Plans Starting with plan years beginning after July 31, 2011, most employer and union sponsored group health plans and group and individual health insurers generally must cover contraceptive and certain other preventive services for women (“Women’s Preventive Services”) at no cost to comply… [read post]