Health and Welfare Roundup 2009
Checklist of New Compliance Requirements
Live on Thursday, December 3, 2009
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT; 11:00 a.m. MT; 10:00 a.m. PT)
With health care reform looming and big recent developments in COBRA and HIPAA, it’s been hard to keep up with this year’s many other compliance changes. Let EBIA help you sort through all the most important health and welfare plan developments. In this fast-paced 90-minute web seminar, we’ll survey the new rules including effective dates, what’s required, who must comply, and how the changes impact plan design and administration for 2010 and beyond.
For one registration fee ($249), you and your co-workers can gather in one room to attend the seminar together via a single web and telephone connection.*
Bonus! Attendees to our live web seminar may purchase the recorded version (available on-demand for 60 days) for just $100! (Regular price is $249.) A coupon code will be sent by e-mail after the live seminar has been presented.
Seminar Level
Topics Covered
Here are some of the developments we’ll cover:
- Form 5500: Latest guidance on mandatory electronic filing for the 2009 plan year
- Genetic information: Latest GINA regulations affecting health plans, insurers, and employers, and impacting HIPAA privacy compliance
- Excise tax compliance: Proposed new IRS Form 8928 for reporting violations of COBRA, HIPAA, and other group health plan mandates
- Michelle’s law: Latest on implementing continued coverage for college students
- Medicare secondary payer reporting: Impending deadline for HRAs
- ADA compliance: Proposed EEOC regulations on expanded disability definition
- COBRA premium subsidy: Action items for compliance, including possible extension by Congress
- HIPAA privacy and security: Update on the new requirements, including HITECH breach notification and expanded enforcement rules
- Mental health parity: What’s required for upcoming compliance dates
- Other important developments affecting cafeteria plans, health FSAs, DCAPs, and other health and welfare plans
Please note: Some of these topics are addressed in greater depth in prior EBIA web seminars. See http://www.ebia.com/WebSeminars for available recordings.
Details
Speakers: Andrew Ky Haynes and Gita K. Sharma. Mr. Haynes is an attorney and Shareholder and Director of Haynes Benefits, P.C., a law firm practicing exclusively in employee benefits, in Kansas City. He is a Contributing Author of EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security and Group Health Plan Mandates manuals. Ms. Sharma is an attorney and Senior Editor at EBIA. She is the Editor and a Contributing Author of EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security manual.
Questions: Send your seminar-related questions to webseminars@ebia.com by Friday, November 27, 2009 for consideration by the speakers in preparing their remarks. We will also accept written questions during the seminar. Afterwards, we’ll issue a Q&A document of most frequently asked questions (sorry, not all questions can be included).
Handouts: A PDF copy of the slides will be available for download the day before the seminar.
* Viewing Details
Your registration provides one web and one phone connection. (Note: A separate registration fee will be charged for each additional web/phone connection.) If employees of the same company wish to view the seminar using more than one connection, please contact us about additional registrations available at a $40 discount.
For no extra fee, you may gather a group of individuals employed by your company to attend the seminar together at one location using one web/phone connection. You may also invite guests (e.g., clients, association members, or colleagues from other companies), but if more than five guests attend, there is a surcharge of $20 for each additional guest. Please contact us to arrange for payment.
Please respect our copyright; do not record the web seminar, share the access link, or duplicate materials. For details on our copyright policy, please visit here.
System Requirements to Attend the Seminar
For the phone portion of the seminar, you simply need a phone line. For the web portion of the seminar, we use WebEx technology. You may wish to view system requirements, test your system and download any necessary WebEx software at this link:
http://developers.webex.com/api/jointest/
If you are not able to complete the WebEx installation or access the web portion of the seminar, please contact WebEx live technical support at (866) 863-3904.
