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8 Dec 2023, 10:02 am
Health plans and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) should tighten their phishing deterrence and other safeguards in response to the announcement of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) of its settlement of its first official phishing-related HIPAA charges with a Louisiana medical group subject to HIPAA as a health care provider. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 2:10 pm
Health plans, health care providers and health care clearinghouses (“Covered Entities”) treat the Department of Health and Human Service Office of Civil Right (“OCR”) announcement of its 46th enforcement action under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Right of Access Rule as a warning to confirm their own organization’s timely delivery of records and other compliance with the Rule. [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 6:33 pm
No business wants to get hit with a bill or judgement for unpaid overtime or other wages and penalties under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 5:42 pm
What Health Plans, Their Fiduciaries, Vendors & Sponsors Should Be Doing Now Health plans, their fiduciaries, health plan sponsors and insurers, and their administrative and other service providers should move quickly to understand and act to mitigate the exposures likely to arise under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy, Security and Data Breach Rules (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, the claims, notice and fiduciary responsibilities under… [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 7:21 am
A Wisconsin employer did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by ceasing to deduct union dues from employees’ paychecks for remittance to their certified union in response to Wisconsin’s enactment of a right-to-work law that curtailed dues checkoff, or communicating with employees about this action according the National Labor Relations Board ruling in Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 10:02 am
August 1 marked the effective date of yet another Affordable Care Act mandate: the controversial contraceptive coverage and other women’s health preventive coverage benefits mandates. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 9:29 am
Health care providers and payers should ensure that practices for billing private payers can withstand the scrutiny of federal and state health care fraud enforcers after the July 26, 2012 announcement of a ground-breaking new public-private antifraud initiative between federal and state health care fraud fighters and a private insurers under which private insurers will share an unprecedented amount of private health claims data, fraud detection practices, and other coöperation… [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 9:43 am
Stamer also is recognized for her publications, industry leadership, workshops and presentations on these and other health industry and human resources concerns. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 8:26 pm
Register For August 24th 2010 Health Plan Update To Catch Up On Latest Federal Health Plan Regulations Employer and other plan sponsors, administrators, and fiduciaries of non-grandfathered group health plans must move quickly to update their plan documents, administrative procedures and agreements, claims and other communications and other processes and procedures to comply with new regulations (Appeals Rules) implementing tightened health plan claims and appeals rules enacted under the… [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 4:44 pm
Health plans, their employer and other health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and vendors as well as health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses, their vendors that are business associates covered by the Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) are urged to act promptly to take well-documented steps to confirm and protect electronic protected health information and systems against the increasingly common… [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 1:12 pm
Employers considering skinny plans and the brokers, third party administrators (TPAs), insurers and consultants recommending the use of these arrangements alone or as part of a broader health plan design should seek qualified legal advice for help with structuring and implementing these arrangements to avoid potential traps and missteps that could trigger unanticipated benefits, costs and/or tax consequences. [read post]
25 Oct 2024, 3:29 pm
Change Health’s disclosure to the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) that it has sent approximately 100 million individual breach notifications about the February 21, 2024, Blackcat 1234 ransomware attack Change Health experienced shows the sweeping damage ransomware attacks present for health plans, their fiduciaries, business associate and other service providers, employer and other plan sponsors and their participants and… [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 10:07 am
Businesses using non-employee workers should heed the recently announced expansion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Voluntary Classification VCS Program (VCS Program) as yet another warning to clean up their worker classification practices and defenses for all workers performing services for the business in any non-employee capacity. [read post]
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]
27 Nov 2024, 8:43 am
With this week’s Thanksgiving celebrations kicking off the 2024 year-end holiday festivities, wise businesses will proactively act to reduce the risk that their business will start 2025 with a post-holiday workforce liability hangover. [read post]
9 Nov 2012, 7:46 pm
Restaurant and other U.S. employers should audit and tighten their pay and record keeping practices as the U.S. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 10:49 am
©2011 Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, P.C. [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]
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]
