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26 Jun 2020, 9:16 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Earlier this week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced that employee benefit plan participants that already took a required minimum distribution (RMD) in 2020 from certain retirement accounts now has the opportunity through August 31, 2020 to roll those funds back into a retirement account following the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act RMD waiver for 2020. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 5:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 The guidance clarifies that masking or obscuring patients’ faces or identifying information before broadcasting a recording of a patient is not sufficient, as a valid HIPAA authorization is still required before giving the media such access. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 4:26 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For example, an agreement between a dentist and a patient to provide dental care, or an agreement between a physician and a patient to provide specialty care, would not be a direct primary care arrangement but nonetheless may be the provision of medical care under section 213(d). [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 9:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also has worked internationally as an advisor to business, community and government leaders on crisis preparedness and response, workforce, health care and other reform, as well as regularly advises and defends organizations about the design, administration and defense of their organizations workforce, employee benefit and compensation, safety, discipline and other management practices and actions.Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law By the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Scribe… [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 7:30 am by JB
The American Medical Association requires doctors to get a patient’s  “informed consent” before they can treat him or her. [read post]
5 May 2020, 2:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law By the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Scribe for the ABA JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with OCR, Vice Chair of the ABA International Section Life Sciences Committee, and the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group and and a former Council Representative, Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, former Vice President and Executive Director of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association,… [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 7:34 pm
COVID-19 patients enter alone, no relatives can attend, and when they are about to leave they sense it. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 5:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union-sponsored health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators should heed the reminder of the importance of ensuring their health plans properly comply in form and operation with the mental health and substance abuse parity mandes of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)  in when the  U.S. [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]
11 Mar 2020, 2:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  According to the announcement, the National Spring Meeting that had been scheduled to take place in Phoenix next week is cancelled. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 8:00 am by Gene Takagi
Some patients may have aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat or diarrhea. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 3:56 am by Edith Roberts
” At The National Law Journal, Marcia Coyle reports that “Gorsuch appears to believe lawyers are not answering his questions directly or quickly enough[; o]ne tell-tale sign for advocates is the justice’s regular comment at oral argument: ‘I’d be grateful’ for an answer. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
With this information, patients will have accurate estimates of any out-of-pocket costs they must pay to meet their plan’s deductible, co-pay, or co-insuran [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 7:29 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 2, 2020) is the last day to submit comments on Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2021; Notice Requirement for Non-Federal Governmental Plans Proposed Rule” (“Proposed Rule”) published by HHS on February 6. 2020. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also is recognized for her work as a public and regulatory policy advocate and community leader with a gift for finding pragmatic solutions and helping to forge the common ground necessary to build consensus. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also is recognized for her work as a public and regulatory policy advocate and community leader with a gift for finding pragmatic solutions and helping to forge the common ground necessary to build consensus. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 9:05 pm by Damini Kunwar
In fact, the National Kidney Foundation reported that, in 2016, “as many as 50 percent of discarded kidneys could have been transplanted. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 8:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also is recognized for her work as a public and regulatory policy advocate and community leader with a gift for finding pragmatic solutions and helping to forge the common ground necessary to build consensus. [read post]