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12 Dec 2017, 1:27 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Of course, the employer mandate is not the only Obama care provision that employers and their health plans need to worry about. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 9:38 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Bureau of Labor Statistics November employment statistics released this morning show employment continued to trend up in professional and business services, manufacturing, and health care. [read post]
28 Oct 2017, 4:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Under the bill, employers have the choice to continue do the attestation on paper as well. [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 4:22 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
(iii) HRAs are tax-advantaged, account-based arrangements that employers can establish for employees to give employees more flexibility and choices regarding their healthcare. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 4:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 How do you expect your family or your health plan to use this or other rankings for purposes of guiding or deciding patient care choices? [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 2:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While few employers or plans want to incur the potential financial costs or liability of estimating savings for individual workers, sharing information about free government-provided resources like the IRS calculator or using vendor-provided solutions that incorporate tools in employee enrollment and other communications can help employees appreciate the benefits of tax-preferred employee benefits and make more informed choices about their benefits and their withholding. [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The SHOP Marketplace is intended to offer an opportunity for for small employers who want to provide health and dental insurance to their employees. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Spring Clean Your Health Plan House Since any reforms eventually enacted are unlikely to retroactively eliminate liability of employers, their health plans or fiduciaries for violations of federal health plan mandates, health plan terms, or associated contracts occurring before the effective date of reform, employer and other health plan sponsors, fiduciaries, insurers and administrators should begin by identifying,  cleaning up any… [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 12:04 pm by Edith Roberts
He has also written several opinions reflecting hostility to reproductive rights, and he has ruled in favor of employers in a number of employment discrimination cases. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 1:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Well known for her extensive work with health care, insurance and other highly regulated entities on corporate compliance, internal controls and risk management, her clients range from highly regulated entities like employers, contractors and their employee benefit plans, their sponsors, management, administrators, insurers, fiduciaries and advisors, technology and data service providers, health care, managed care and insurance, financial services, government contractors… [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 1:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Under OSHA, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 12:23 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She is particularly recognized for her leading edge work, thought leadership and knowledgeable advice and representation on the design, documentation, administration, regulation and defense of a diverse range of self-insured and insured health and welfare benefit plans including private exchange and other health benefit choices, health care reimbursement and other “defined contribution” limited benefit, 24-hour and other occupational and… [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Foothill wrongful termination settlement resolving H-2A visa rule violation charges illustrates an often overlooked side of the potential Catch-22 that U.S. employers can face when making hiring and other employment choices between work-eligible foreign and U.S. citizen employees or candidates. [read post]
31 May 2016, 4:05 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Vermont law challenged in Gobeille required health insurers and other payers to disclose treatment information about Plan members as well as other certain health care claim payment and other data to an all payer claims database, which under the law is made “available as a resource for insurers, employers, providers, purchasers of health care, and State agencies to continuously review health care utilization, expenditures, and performance in… [read post]
26 May 2016, 12:05 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and health insurers, health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates should verify that their copying charges and other policies and practices for responding to requests of individuals for copies and other access to protected health information (PHI) comply with the Privacy and Security Rules (Privacy Rule) of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as… [read post]
6 May 2016, 11:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She is particularly recognized for her leading edge work, thought leadership and knowledgeable advice and representation on the design, documentation, administration, regulation and defense of a diverse range of self-insured and insured health and welfare benefit plans including private exchange and other health benefit choices, health care reimbursement and other “defined contribution” limited benefit, 24-hour and other occupational and… [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  On one hand, failing to design and administer their health benefit programs to comply with these and other rules and interpretations about the preventive care and other federal health plan mandates imposed by the ACA or other laws can trigger significant liability for insurers as well as group health plans and theirsponsoring employers. [read post]