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20 Feb 2014, 6:30 am by Rebecca Shafer, J.D.
They apply to group health plans of employers with 20 or more employees. [read post]
11 Sep 2023, 1:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
$1.3 Million LACHP HIPAA Resolution Agreement The $1.3 million LACHP resolution agreement announced today arises from two HIPAA breach investigations conducted by OCR into breaches involving the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan which health care benefits and coverage through state, federal, and commercial programs. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 11:27 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Expat FAQ also confirms that the Agencies will treat coverage provided under an expatriate group health plan as a form of minimum essential coverage under section 5000A of the Code. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:23 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
With health plans and their sponsors and insurers increasingly offering or promoting the use of apps to plan members members to access, maintain and use their health information, health plans, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates (“covered entities”) covered by HIPAA must understand and be prepared meet their HIPAA responsibilities to provide and protect ePHI to and on these… [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In this respect, employers, insurers, and administrators of group health plans attempting to distinguish non-essential health coverages such as prescription drug, behavior health, or dental coverages provided separately from otherwise applicable major medical coverage should consult with legal counsel to confirm that those arrangements comply with existing guidance in form and operation generally, as well as otherwise comply… [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As amended by ACA, federal law imposes significant penalties against plans, their fiduciaries and even the sponsoring employer if the group health plan violates the ACA out-of-pocket limit or a long list of other ACA and other federal group health rules. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 5:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack On February 21, 2024, a ransomware attack executed by the Blackcat1234 ransomware group took control of and shut down the payment, revenue cycle management and related tools and systems of UHG Subsidiary Change Healthcare. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 11:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As amended by ACA, federal law imposes significant penalties against plans, their fiduciaries and even the sponsoring employer if the group health plan violates the ACA out-of-pocket limit or a long list of other ACA and other federal group health rules. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 4:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In addition to updating plan documents, contracts, and processes, health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries, administrative service providers and others likely need to review budget forecasts, stop loss and other insurance, participant and provider communications, systems, and a host of other operating features of their programs. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 2:44 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer-based health plans, health insurance issuers, and other group health plans should begin preparing to report prescription drug and health coverage costs data for prescription drugs covered by their programs after December 31, 2021 required by an interim final rule with request for comments issued by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), and the… [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 12:28 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment Grants were awarded to 41 state agencies, community health centers, school-based organizations and non-profit groups in 22 states; two grantees are multistate organizations. [read post]
6 May 2019, 5:44 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Past Chair of the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and, a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, heavily involved in health benefit, health care, health, financial and other information technology, data and related process and systems development, policy and operations throughout her career, and scribe of the ABA JCEB annual Office of Civil Rights agency meeting,… [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 2:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Coupled with OCR’s Right of Access Rule settlement agreement with United Health Insurance Group last August, the latest settlement agreement sends a strong message to health plans and other Covered Entities about the risks of failing to deliver protected health information as required by the Right of Access Rule. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 3:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The form and instructions are available on PBGC’s Coverage webpage. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 3:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  In addition to recovering the single largest individual HIPAA settlement in history of $16 million with Anthem, Inc. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the largest not-for-profit health system in Southeast Texas, Memorial Hermann Health System (MHHS) is paying to settle charges it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by issuing a press release with the name and other protected health information (PHI) about a patient without the patient’s prior HIPAA-compliant authorization under a… [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 9:21 am by Rebecca Shafer, J.D.
They apply to group health plans of employers with 20 or more employees. [read post]