HIPAA Traps for the Unwary

Health Status Discrimination, Special Enrollment, Creditable Coverage, and More

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Lots of HIPAA rules affect health plan administration, including prohibitions on health status discrimination, rights to special enrollment (resulting from new dependents or loss of other coverage), requirements to track and provide information about creditable coverage, and more. With the DOL promising HIPAA audits in some areas of the country, the time is right for a HIPAA checkup.

In this 90-minute web seminar, our experts identify some of the trickiest issues and provide guidance on how to minimize administrative burdens and avoid mistakes that can lead to litigation or adverse DOL action.

Originally presented and recorded on March 6, 2008.

Seminar Level


Intermediate Difficulty

Topics Covered

Here’s some of what was covered:

  • New safe harbor rules on supplemental plans. What happens now that many wellness, prescription drug, and other programs are subject to the HIPAA rules?
  • Misdiagnosis of a medical condition. Can it ever count as evidence of a preexisting condition?
  • Loss of coverage under another plan for fraud or other bad behavior. Should it create special enrollment rights?
  • Special enrollment after reaching a lifetime maximum. What are the implications for employers with multiple (“stacked”) benefit options or plans?
  • “Hidden” preexisting condition exclusions. How to identify them and determine whether they can be redesigned to comply with the HIPAA rules?
  • Smoking. Is it really a health status factor and what are the implications?

Details

Speakers: Howard D. Bye and James D. O’Connell. Mr. Bye is an attorney and Senior Editor at EBIA. He is the Editor and a Contributing Author of EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security manual. Mr. O’Connell is an attorney and Special Counsel to Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament and Rubenstein, P.C., in Chicago. He is a Contributing Author of EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security manual.

Handouts: A handout of the seminar slides and other information is provided through download.

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