Search for: "OCR Solutions, Inc." Results 121 - 140 of 419
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
11 Oct 2021, 7:59 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Federal government contractors and grant recipients should tighten cyber security policies, practices and internal controls to mitigate their exposure to civil False Claims Act claims by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) under a new DOJ Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative announced by DOJ last week. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 9:19 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Awareness of the HIIPAA Breach Rule is much more widespread, largely due to OCR’s long and ever-growing list of settlements and prosecutions of violations of its HIPAA Breach Rules. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 2:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
U.S. businesses should raise their guard as well as encourage employees and others they deal with to avoid and take steps to avoid getting caught up in potentially fraudulent novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) related or leveraged scams while also taking steps to ensure the defensibility of their own COVID-related dealings with respect to COVID relief programs and Federal Sentencing Guideline and other exposures heightened by the COVID-driven operational changes and events. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 5:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
To assure consideration, comments must be received by OCR no later than 60 days from that official Federal Register publication date. [read post]
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
OCR’s positions on disclosures to the media in the 5/5 Guidance reaffirm OCR’s longstanding interpretation and enforcement of HIPAA as prohibiting disclosures of PHI and media access to areas where patients or their protected health information might be visible or accessible is long standing. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 9:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Solutions Law Press, Inc. invites you receive future updates by registering on our Solutions Law Press, Inc. [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
   Solutions Law Press, Inc. invites you receive future updates by registering on our Solutions Law Press, Inc. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 2, 2020) is the deadline for employers and other health benefit program sponsors, insurers, plan administrators and fiduciaries, health care providers, PBMs and other interested persons to comment on proposed federal rule change that would require insured health plans to count drug rebates and price concessions retained by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as administrative expenses for purposes of determining if the issuing insurer is required to rebate premiums under the medical loss… [read post]