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11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The heavy reliance by group health plans and health insurers upon internet based applications and portals to carry out online enrollment, claims administration and payment, reporting and a host of other key health plan functions makes it particularly important for health plans, their employer or other sponsors, fiduciaries, vendors, and other involved in health plan administration or using or accessing health plan data to verify and ensure the internet data sharing and other applications and portals… [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers sponsoring health plans and members of their management named as plan fiduciaries or otherwise having input or oversight over the health plan should verify their company’s group health plan meets the out-of-pocket maximum rules of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) § 1302(c)(1) as well as a long list of other federal health benefit rules to minimize the risk that violations will obligate the sponsoring employer to self-assess, self-report on IRS Form 8928, and… [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
About The Author Recognized by her peers as a Martindale-Hubble “AV-Preeminent” (Top 1%) and “Top Rated Lawyer” with special recognition LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® as “LEGAL LEADER™ Texas Top Rated Lawyer” in Health Care Law and Labor and Employment Law; as among the “Best Lawyers In Dallas” for her work in the fields of “Labor & Employment,” “Tax: Erisa & Employee Benefits,” “Health… [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For Help or More Information If you need assistance responding to HIPAA or other health industry regulatory, enforcement or other developments, reviewing or tightening your policies and procedures, conducting training or audits, responding to or defending an investigation or other enforcement actions; with 2014 health plan decision-making, or with reviewing and updating, administering or defending your group health or other employee benefit, human resources, insurance, health care… [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 9:40 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For Assistance or More Information If your organization needs assistance reviewing or updating your heath care program design, documentation, policies or procedures in response to the Affordable Care Act or other requirements or with other employee benefit, insurance or human resources matters, please contact the author of this update, Board Certified Labor & Employment attorney Cynthia Marcotte Stamer at (469) 767-8872 or via e-mail here. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 6:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union sponsored health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries, and business associates should brace for audits and enforcement of the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules by the Department of Health & Human Service Office of Civil Rights (OCR) follow OCR’s 2016 audit program on the heels of its announcement last week of two large HIPAA settlements last week. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 6:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union sponsored health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries, and business associates should brace for audits and enforcement of the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules by the Department of Health & Human Service Office of Civil Rights (OCR) follow OCR’s 2016 audit program on the heels of its announcement last week of two large HIPAA settlements last week. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 1:27 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
About The Author Recognized by her peers as a Martindale-Hubble “AV-Preeminent” (Top 1%) and “Top Rated Lawyer” with special recognition LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® as “LEGAL LEADER Texas Top Rated Lawyer” in Health Care Law and Labor and Employment Law; as among the “Best Lawyers In Dallas” for her work in the fields of “Labor & Employment,” “Tax: Erisa & Employee Benefits,” “Health Care” and… [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 3:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Phoenix-based nonprofit health system Banner Health and its affiliates (“Banner Health”) paid $1.25 million and agreed to take corrective actions to resolve its exposure to potentially much greater Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule civil monetary penalty exposure for a 2016 cyber hacking breach that compromised the person health information of 2.81 million consumers. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 11:48 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For additional information about the requirements or concerns discussed in this article, republication or other related matters, please contact the author, employment lawyer Cynthia Marcotte Stamer via e-mail, via telephone at (214) 452 -8297 or on LinkedIn. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 8:34 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other health plan sponsors, administrators, insurers and their business associates should heed both the lesson about properly protecting health plan documents with protected health information and the more subtle lesson about the role of employees and other whistleblowers in bringing these violations to the attention of regulators contained in the latest Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) resolution agreement. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 3:39 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For Advice, Training & Other Resources If you need assistance resolving past Form 5500 or other filing exposures, or monitoring and responding to these and other regulatory policy, enforcement, litigation or other developments, or to review or respond to these or other workforce, benefits and compensation, performance and risk management, compliance, enforcement or management concerns, the author of this update, attorney Cynthia Marcotte Stamer may be… [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 12:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and containment efforts has many businesses flailing to reconfigure their staffing and other business models even as Congress is preparing to impose paid COVID related leave mandate on employers with less than 500 employees. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 4:00 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers beware of potential National Labor Relations Act unfair labor practices risks that may arise from their adoption or enforcement of overly broad or restrictive workplace recording, acceptable use, workplace conduct, commitment-to-integrity or other policies that might be construed to prohibit or deter employees from exercising protected organization or other collective bargaining rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in light of the Fifth Circuit’s July 25, 2017 … [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 11:26 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For more information about these or other health or other legal, management or public policy developments, please contact the author Cynthia Marcotte Stamer via e-mail or via telephone at (214) 452 -8297. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 4:48 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
$115 is the fee that health plans participating in the Independent Dispute Resolution (“IDR”) process required by the No Surprises Act (the “NSA”) to resolve disputes with health care providers, facilities, and providers of air ambulance services (“providers”) over the amount the health plan will pay the provider for out-of-network health care or items for because the health plan and provider cannot reach agreement about the appropriate amount outside the IDR… [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 9:33 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For more information about these or other health or other legal, management or public policy developments, please contact the author Cynthia Marcotte Stamer via e-mail or via telephone at (214) 452 -8297. [read post]