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8 Jan 2019, 12:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Amid all of this, of course, providers, pears, and their business associates can anticipate continued if not enhanced demands for enhanced data security and privacy protections and accompanying enforcement of these standards. [read post]
15 Dec 2018, 7:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer’s clients include employers and other workforce management organizations; employer, union, association, government and other insured and self-insured health and other employee benefit plan sponsors, benefit plans, fiduciaries, administrators, and other plan vendors;  managed care organizations, insurers, self-insured health plans and other payers and their management; public and private, domestic and international hospitals, health care systems, clinics, skilled… [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 12:15 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The RFI follows up on OCR’s announcement of another series of high dollar resolution agreements against covered entities and business associates for alleged breaches of HIPAA’s Privacy or Security Rules, as well as publication of various new guidance intended to help patients, their families, covered entities, business associates and others understand when HIPAA restricts or allows the release of protected health information by covered entities and business… [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 4:55 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Aside from the disruptions businesses incur to organizations and relationships with employees, customers, business partners or others and often tremendous costs of investigation and mitigation, breaches also commonly trigger substantial legal liability under a myriad of federal and state laws and regulations, contracts, and common law tort claims. [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 9:56 am by John Elwood
Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast, Inc., 17-1492 Issue: Whether individual Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. [read post]
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]
14 Nov 2018, 12:22 pm by John Elwood
Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast, Inc., 17-1492 Issue: Whether individual Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 8:46 am by John Elwood
Florida, the Supreme Court held 8-1 in an opinion by Sotomayor that Florida’s capital-sentencing scheme – under which a jury rendered an “advisory sentence” but a judge had to independently weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors before entering a sentence of life or death – violated the Sixth Amendment’s requirement that a jury rather than a judge must find all facts necessary to sentence a defendant to death. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 11:21 am by John Elwood
(relisted after the October 26 conference)   AT&T, Inc v. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In addition, employer, union, association and other health plan sponsors and fiduciaries should consider incorporating enterprise risk assessments of their health plans and its vendors as well as specific contractual assurance requirements into their business associate agreements to help mitigate their health plan related liabilities and risks. [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]
The cases, listed newest to oldest, and the Court’s summaries are as follows: Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, Inc. v. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 7:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has extensive health care reimbursement and insurance experience advising and defending plan sponsors, administrators, insurance and managed care organizations, health care providers, payers, and others about Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare and Medicaid Advantage, Tri-Care, self-insured group, association, individual and employer and association group a [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 10:40 am by Kevin Kaufman
Its geography is advantageous for multinational firms which require an East Coast presence but not a big city headquarters. [read post]
Relying on the existing baseline of a fully-operational plant in accordance with North Coast Rivers Alliance v. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Restaurant employers should audit and tighten the employee wage, timekeeping and other wage and hour practices to minimize their exposure to heightened enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act and other federal wage and hour laws by the U.S. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:01 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Scrutiny & Challenges To Contract & Outsourced Labor Relationships Rising Beyond assessing their FLSA and other wage and hour compliance and associated exposures from the worker on their own payroll, U.S. employers and their leaders also should take care to carefully evaluate potential exposures from nontraditional services relationships and act to manage those risks. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 8:47 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Reviewing and tightening workforce travel related policies, practices and procedures to meet current laws, business and social expectations and management needs can boost the bang businesses realize for their business travel buck while mitigating a host of legal and business risks. [read post]