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1 Oct 2021, 9:19 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule and the Health Breach Rule implement enhanced health information data security and breach notification requirements added to federal law by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) enacted by Congress as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. [read post]
28 Sep 2021, 7:35 am by Adam Chan
FIRRMA defines these sensitive businesses as “TID U.S. business”—that (a) “produces, designs, tests, manufactures, or develops … critical technologies,” (b) “owns, operates, manufactures, supplies, or services critical infrastructure,” or (c) “maintains or collects sensitive personal data” of American citizens threatening national security (emphasis added). [read post]
In the case of employees, for example, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) requires maintaining the confidentiality of employee medical information and this may include COVID-19 related data. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 1:26 pm by Kevin LaCroix
If the merger objection lawsuits are disregarded, the litigation rate translates to about 4.7%, which although below the record-level litigation rates during the period 2017 -2019 is still well above the 1996-2018 annual litigation rate of 3.0%. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 5:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
OCR enforcement data documents a steady  rise in OCR investigation and enforcement activity. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 4:55 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Internal Revenue Service is warning human resources and other business leaders about a growing wave of identity theft and W-2 scams targeting sensitive tax data employers collect on their employees. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  While the $16 million resolution payment that OCR announced Anthem, Inc. is paying to resolve its HIPAA civil monetary penalty exposures for allowing the breach of the ePHI of 79 million individuals, this payment reflects only a very small portion of the overall liability that Anthem, Inc. incurred from data breach that lead to this resolution payment. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 5:35 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Continuing Fallout of 2015 Data Breach Provides Many Lessons For Other Businesses & Their Health Plans The $2.3 million (Resolution Amount) data breach settlement and other post breach fallout now bankrupt radiation oncology and cancer care provider 21st Century Oncology, Inc. (21CO)  is experiencing after data thieves hacked into the names, social security numbers and other private health and financial… [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 8:30 am by Merritt Baer, Chinmayi Sharma
Privacy Litigation, the court treated the company’s data policy as an enforceable contract in assessing a motion to dismiss. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 12:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Stamer also is widely recognized for her extensive work and leadership on HIPAA, FACTA, PCI, IRC and other tax, Social Security, GLB, rade secret, physician and other medical confidentiality and privacy, federal and state data security and data breach and other informatio [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 9:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The same year, she and Rice, who worked for the third-party administrator to the trust fund, American Benefit Plan Administrators, now, Zenith American Solutions (Zenith), participated in an effort to complain about Brain’s interference with efforts to collect delinquent contributions from contractors. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
FAQ 31 On Coverage of Colonoscopies Pursuant to USPSTF Recommendations Concerning colonoscopies, FAQ 31 states that because the Agencies view preparation for a preventive screening colonoscopy an integral part of the procedure, bowel preparation medications, when medically appropriate and prescribed by a health care provider, are an integral part of the preventive screening colonoscopy that group health plans and health insurers must cover without cost sharing, subject to… [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
FAQ 31 On Coverage of Colonoscopies Pursuant to USPSTF Recommendations Concerning colonoscopies, FAQ 31 states that because the Agencies view preparation for a preventive screening colonoscopy an integral part of the procedure, bowel preparation medications, when medically appropriate and prescribed by a health care provider, are an integral part of the preventive screening colonoscopy that group health plans and health insurers must cover without cost sharing, subject to… [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 10:07 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Meanwhile, insurers, business associates and other plan vendors also generally should anticipate that beyond HIPAA, they also may be subject to data security, privacy and other mandates and exposures under state HIPAA-like rules for protected health information, as well as other obligations under insurance, data security, identity theft, breach, privacy and other state laws. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 10:07 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Meanwhile, insurers, business associates and other plan vendors also generally should anticipate that beyond HIPAA, they also may be subject to data security, privacy and other mandates and exposures under state HIPAA-like rules for protected health information, as well as other obligations under insurance, data security, identity theft, breach, privacy and other state laws. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 4:55 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  Last year, the American Bar Association reported in its annual Legal Technology Survey that one in four firms with at least 100 attorneys have experienced data breaches involving hackers, website attacks or stolen or lost smartphones, tablets or laptop computers. [read post]