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31 Aug 2016, 2:02 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
U.S. employers, employment agencies, unions, their benefit plans and fiduciaries, and their management and service providers should move quickly to review and strengthen their employment and other practices to guard against a foreseeable surge in employee retaliation claims and judgements likely to follow the August 30, 2016 issuance by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) of its new final  EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues and concurrently published… [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 3:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The $1.6 million civil monetary penalty (“CMP”) assessed against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (“TX HHSC”) for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules between 2013 and 2017 committed by a predecessor agency, the Department of Aging and Disability Services (“DADS”) illustrates the critical need for health plans and insurers and all other HIPAA covered entities… [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 10:07 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health Plans, Sponsors & Business Associates Should Verify Plan’s HIPAA Compliance Employers and other health plan sponsors and the health plan fiduciaries and business associates providing services involving dealings on behalf of the plan with protected health information just received another reminder to confirm and be prepared to prove all required business associate agreements are in place and that the health plans otherwise properly are administering all policies, practices,… [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 3:15 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A newly-announced settlement agreement and corrective action plan (the “Settlement”) between a prominent New York academic medical center and the U.S. [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 Civil Rights… [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]