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8 Dec 2016, 2:48 pm by Ben Vernia
Last July, for instance, Acclarent Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, paid $18 million to resolve allegations it caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs by marketing and distributing its sinus spacer product for use as a drug delivery device without FDA approval. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 5:56 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The IRS  Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (TEGE) just issued updated internal guidance (Guidance) governing the procedures its agents will use to gather information for employee benefit plan and exempt organization examinations beginning April 1, 2017. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 4:14 am by Edith Roberts
Nevils, a case asking whether the Federal Employee Health Benefits Act pre-empts state anti-subrogation laws. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 6:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 This includes vigorous enforcement as well as outreach to employer associations and worker advocates to ensure that Austin restaurant workers receive a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 6:32 am by Rebecca Tushnet
As of June 30, 2012, Health Canada received 11 reports of convulsions suspected of being associated with Pico-Salax. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 8:48 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a living process that requires employer and other health plans, health insurers, health care providers and healthcare clearinghouses to recurrently reevaluate their HIPAA enterprise risk and timely act to mitigate security threats to electronic (ePHI) and other  protected health information and other HIPAA compliance concerns on an… [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 1:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, past Chair and current committee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Section Employee Benefits Group, Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee, former Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, a former ABA… [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 4:52 am by New Jersey Employment Law Letter
It can also include discrimination based on citizenship status or association with someone of a particular national origin. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 3:14 pm by Cathy Siegner
The source of the implicated scallops, De Oro Resources Inc., has been temporarily suspended by the government of the Philippines from distributing its products and ordered to test its employees for Hepatitis A. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 2:02 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The Guidance also makes clear that the retaliation prohibitions apply regardless of an applicant or employee’s citizenship or work authorization status. [read post]
17 Aug 2016, 5:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, past Chair and current committee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Section Employee Benefits Group, Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee, former Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, a former ABA… [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 9:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Scott Brain, et al of an employee benefit plan trustee, and an individual lawyer and her law firm that served as the employee benefit plan’s outside legal counsel of violating the fiduciary responsibility and whistleblower rules of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) illustrates why employee benefit plan sponsors, trustees or other fiduciaries, their management, legal counsel, auditors and other service providers must both… [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 2:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Lessons For Other Covered Entities From UMMC Resolution Agreement The UMMC charges and Resolution Agreement contains several key lessons for other covered entities and their business associates, which OCR’s July 21, 2016 announcement warns other covered entities and business associates to heed.. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 6:07 pm by Jeffrey P. Gale, P.A.
 “A health care provider may not refer the employee to another health care provider, diagnostic facility, therapy center, or other facility without prior authorization from the carrier…. [read post]