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Manage Retaliation Risks In Response To Updated EEOC Enforcement Guidance, Rising Retaliation Claims
31 Aug 2016, 2:02 am
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]
13 Aug 2012, 8:14 am
©2012 Cynthia Marcotte Stamer. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 9:50 am
©2022 Cynthia Marcotte Stamer. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 10:49 am
©2011 Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, P.C. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 8:48 am
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 ongoing basis. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 1:21 pm
Employers and other self-insured group health plan sponsors and health insurers, adjust your budgets and prepare to open up your wallets to pay additional fees mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”). [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 1:35 pm
quickly to implement and communicate 2024 health spending account (“HFSA”), high deductible health plan amounts relevant to determining eligibility to contribute to a medical savings account (“MSA”), adoption credit and exclusion limits, and other inflation-adjusted limitations relevant to the annual enrollment, withholding and other year-end tax and benefit planning of workers and their families to assist workers to take into account these adjustments during 2024 benefit… [read post]
5 Nov 2023, 3:10 pm
Health plans, health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses and their business associates (“Covered Entities” should check out this new Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) video intended to educate health care industry players about real world cyber-attack trends from OCR breach reports, OCR investigations and how implementation of appropriate Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Security Rile compliance can mitigate their exposure to… [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 1:07 pm
quickly to implement and communicate 2024 health spending account (“HFSA”), high deductible health plan amounts relevant to determining eligibility to contribute to a medical savings account (“MSA”), adoption credit and exclusion limits, and other inflation-adjusted limitations relevant to the annual enrollment, withholding and other year-end tax and benefit planning of workers and their families to assist workers to take into account these adjustments during 2024 benefit… [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 3:10 pm
Get Up To Date On Details of New De-Identification Guidance & Other HIPAA Developments By Participating In 12/12 HIPAA Update Web Workshop Health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (covered entities) and their business associates and leadership should check and update their policies and practices for the de-identification of protected health information (PHI) in light of newly-released Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in… [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 8:57 am
The $3.5 million payment that Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is paying to the U.S. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 6:18 am
Restaurant employers beware! [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 6:52 pm
Employer and union group health plan sponsors and insurers of group and individual health plans (Health Plans) agonizing over 2014 plan design decisions are running out of time. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 8:56 am
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]
21 Nov 2023, 3:15 pm
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]
5 Mar 2013, 1:51 pm
While most employer and union health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators are bracing to cope with “pay or play” and other mandates of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, most report frustration with the continuing lack of clarity and uncertainty about rules and costs. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 11:41 am
Despite a showdown in Congress about health care reform’s future that threatens to bring funding of the U.S. government to a halt and a host of recent security and other concerns about the security and operational readiness of its enrollment platform and details of the implementation of the marketplaces in many states that will provide the offered coverage, the Obama Administration is touting today, October 1, 2013, as the first day that Americans can apply for enrollment in coverage offered… [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 4:41 pm
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]
6 Aug 2013, 6:03 pm
Report Highlights Concerns About Security Of Sensitive Personal Information Americans Will Share With HHS Exchange Portal AS HHS Invites Consumers To Set Up Personal Accounts The reported finding that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has yet to complete the necessary security arrangements and testing for the web-portal Incomplete security arrangements and testing necessary to ensure the security of personal health and other information shared by consumers on the health… [read post]
