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17 Jun 2019, 7:10 am by Seth Hanft and Greg Daugherty
This may also provide a nice option for small or mid-size employers who, while not subject to the ACA employer coverage mandate, want to provide some medical plan assistance to their employees, short of offering a traditional group health plan. [read post]
30 Apr 1997, 11:00 pm
This Legal Update Supplement and its attachments are intended to provide a brief explanation of the effect of the new laws on employer group health plans and of the actions which group health plans must take by June 1, 1997. [read post]
30 Apr 1997, 11:00 pm
This Legal Update Supplement and its attachments are intended to provide a brief explanation of the effect of the new laws on employer group health plans and of the actions which group health plans must take by June 1, 1997. [read post]
22 May 2013, 12:00 am
Ilyse Wolens Schuman The number of employers that plan to continue providing their employees with health insurance has increased, according to a new survey conducted by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP).read more [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care providers, health plans, health insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, their business associates and others involved in health information technology or related activities should raise their cyber security defenses and use cyber security best practices to defend their information  systems and data against ongoing cyber security attacks targeting health industry information systems in the United States […] [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care providers, health plans, health insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, their business associates and others involved in health information technology or related activities should raise their cyber security defenses and use cyber security best practices to defend their information  systems and data against ongoing cyber security attacks targeting health industry information systems in the United States […] [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 12:24 pm by Evangelina Cantu
The post New Mental Health Parity Guidance for Plan Sponsors appeared first on Spencer Fane. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 8:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Attention focused on the political fights and regulatory demands of ACA and an often unwarranted assumption of the compliance adequacy of plan designs and documentation provided by insurers, administrators and other professional service providers have lead many employer and other health plan sponsors, their health plan fiduciaries and administrators to fail to make legally required or otherwise needed changes. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 4:10 pm by Rachel Grunberger
Following the release of the President’s plan to reduce gun violence, the Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a “Message to Our Nation’s Health Care Providers” regarding HIPAA and reporting threats of violence. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 5:06 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses and their business associates (Covered Entities) under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) should review and update practices on protecting the security of and providing protected health information (PHI) and record access to patients, plan members and other subjects of that information in response to new guidance and enforcement… [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 5:06 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses and their business associates (Covered Entities) under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) should review and update practices on protecting the security of and providing protected health information (PHI) and record access to patients, plan members and other subjects of that information in response to new guidance and enforcement… [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 11:07 am by Tim Rozelle
As many healthcare providers have experienced, anti-assignment provisions in ERISA health plans can be a full-stop to recovering unpaid claims. [read post]
31 May 2012, 1:26 pm by Michelle Capezza
  For example, for plans that provide a grace period for use of contributions, unused salary reduction contributions to the health FSA for plan years beginning in 2012 or later that are carried over into the grace period for that plan year will not count against the $2500 limit for the subsequent plan year. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 1:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Think your health care organization or health plan has health care privacy covered? [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 1:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Think your health care organization or health plan has health care privacy covered? [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… [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 2:02 am by Ashok Subramanian, Centivo
And over 90% of respondents in Centivo’s 2022 Employer & Broker Health Plan Trends Survey agreed: The health plan industry needs an overhaul. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 9:29 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Accordingly, even while anticipating greater support by federal agencies in the fight against fraud affecting private payers, health insurers and other private health plans also should tighten their practices to prepare for heightened scrutiny and enforcement by federal officials of federal health plan rules. [read post]
18 May 2020, 6:59 am by Kimberly Weibley
IRS guidance, Notice 2020-29 and 2020-33, issued on May 12, 2020 addresses unanticipated changes in health and dependent care expenses because of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by  providing for increased flexibility with respect to mid-year elections under a Section 125 cafeteria plan during calendar year 2020 related to employer sponsored health coverage, health Flexible Spending Arrangements (health FSAs), and dependent… [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 8:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Historically, insurers promised to steer patients to health care providers contracting to become “preferred providers” to health plan members in return for health care provider’s agreement to provide care a preferred rates or in accordance with other health plan rules. [read post]