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27 Jan 2013, 8:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Since the enactment of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA), many employers  searching for health plan solutions may have been asked to consider replacing or modifying their existing insured or self-insured group health plan with a ”health reimbursement arrangement” (HRA) or other arrangement which would reimburse employees for premiums paid for individual health insurance… [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 8:50 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Her insights on HIPAA risk management and compliance often appear in medical privacy related publications of a broad range of health care, health plan and other industry publications Among others, she has conducted privacy training for the Association of State & Territorial Health Plans (ASTHO), the Los Angeles Health Department, SHRM, HIMMS, the American Bar Association, the Health Care Compliance… [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 8:13 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits Group, Ms. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 5:40 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Review and update your policies and be careful how you handle employee reports of injury or safety concerns. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 4:12 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The 2013 Regulations Overview Since 2003, HIPAA generally has required that health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses and their business associates (“Covered Entities”) restrict and safeguard individually identifiable  health care information (“PHI”) of individuals and afford other protections to individuals that are the subject of that information. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 9:21 am
Then there are health care and other benefits promised to retirees beyond their pensions; at last report, these added another $130 million or so to the totals. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 8:46 am by Elizabeth Arce
  It also changes the playing field as to air time, post-retirement work restrictions, supplemental benefit plans and health insurance vesting. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 10:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association, Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, the Former Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefit & Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Committee, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council… [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 10:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association, Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, the Former Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefit & Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Committee, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council… [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 9:24 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association, Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, the Former Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefit & Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Committee, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council… [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 2:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association, Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, the Former Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefit & Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Committee, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council… [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 1:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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]
4 Jan 2013, 1:52 pm by Michael Markarian
While it did not get enacted, progress on this legislation helped spur action by the National Institutes of Health, which announced plans to retire more than 110 chimpanzees (the full population of government-owned chimps at the New Iberia Research Center, a lab that The HSUS investigated and exposed in 2009) to Chimp Haven, the federal chimpanzee sanctuary, in the coming months.Eggs and Hen Housing: S. 3239/H.R. 3798 had a hearing in the Senate Agriculture Committee and… [read post]
3 Jan 2013, 12:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
” In light of this latest clear warning, health plans and their fiduciaries, sponsors and administrators, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates should review plans, practices and data security as affecting ePHI and other protected health information on mobile and other devices. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
I explained that if military spending, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and interest on the federal debt were untouched, “89 percent of all other expenditures, including veterans’ benefits and health care, the CIA and other intelligence activities, NIH, military retirement, border security, immigration, the FBI, the courts, FEMA, the Coast Guard, federal prisons, and a long list of services that the country surely needs, would need to be axed. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 6:42 am by Timothy P. Flynn, Esq.
 Such add-backs include things like: rent paid by the business to the owner-payor; depreciation allowances; home office expenses; entertainment expenses; travel expenses; and vehicle allowances.While the authors of the manual(s) would not agree, we here at this blog perceive a slight editorial shift in the new manual, going from a pro-payor to a pro-payee treatment of such individuals.Although the exact language of the income and deduction sections [2.01(C) and 2.07(E)] has been  slightly… [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 5:33 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A W&HD investigation found Mallett Plumbing and Utility paid straight time for all hours worked and failed to pay employees the required wages and fringe benefits applicable to the classifications of work they performed while working on building alterations and construction projects for the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 4:35 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
John Dombek III and John Dombek Jr. cannot use personal bankruptcy to avoid complying with a federal court order to restore $69,521 in health-care premiums and retirement plan contributions withheld from the paychecks of employees at several companies that are part of the JJD Industries in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 3:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Investment Advisors and Others With Discretion Over Funds Should Exercise Fiduciary Care While the Madorf scandle represents an exceptionally large and long-standing stream of mishandling of employee benefit funds, the investigations and prosecutions also serve as a reminder of the need to carefully comply with the fiduciary responsibility and other requirements of ERISA and other laws to investment advisors and other employee benefit plan asset service… [read post]