Health and Welfare Roundup 2009

Checklist of New Compliance Requirements

Available immediately

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.

Originally presented on December 3, 2009.

Seminar Level


Intermediate Difficulty

Topics Covered

Here’s some of what was covered:

  • 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.

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

Viewing Details

Accessing the recorded web seminar: After you purchase a recorded web seminar, you will receive an email with access information. You and your co-workers may then view the recording as many times as you wish for 60 days. An internet connection is required to view the recording; it can be stopped and started as needed and has a table of contents for easy navigation.

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