EBIA Weekly Archives - HIPAA
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- HHS Announces Intent to Issue Additional Regulations Implementing the HITECH Act, Including Business Associate Liability
- From the March 18, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced on its website that it is continuing to work on regulations on the privacy and security provisions of the HITECH Act, passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ...
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- HHS Posts List of Covered Entities Reporting Breaches of Unsecured PHI Affecting More Than 500 Individuals
- From the March 04, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has begun posting on its website a list of breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals that have been reported to the agency by covered entities. By way of background, ...
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- DOL Releases Model Employer CHIP Notice to Notify Employees Regarding Eligibility for Premium Assistance
- From the February 04, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has announced the availability on its website of a model Employer CHIP Notice that can be used to satisfy the employer notice requirement under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA). By way ...
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- IRS Issues New Form 8928 on Excise Taxes for Failures to Comply With HSA Comparability, COBRA, HIPAA, and Other Group Health Plan Mandates
- From the February 04, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has released the final version of Form 8928, a new reporting form provided for in IRS excise tax regulations finalized in September 2009. (See our Checkpoint Newsstand article.) Here are some highlights: Violations Triggering Excise Taxes. The Instructions ...
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- 2009 Form M-1 Now Available; Virtually Unchanged From 2008
- From the January 07, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has announced the availability of the 2009 Form M-1, Report for Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) and Certain Entities Claiming Exception (ECEs), which is virtually unchanged from 2008. Form M-1 is an annual report that must ...
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- When COBRA coverage ends early, can the HIPAA certificate be sent with the COBRA termination notice?
- From the November 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We would like to provide the notice of termination of COBRA coverage together with the HIPAA certificate of creditable coverage. Is this permissible and, if so, are there any differences between the delivery requirements for COBRA notices of termination ...
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- HHS Issues Interim Final Rule to Conform HIPAA Enforcement Regulations to HITECH Act Penalty Revisions
- From the October 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- HHS has issued an interim final rule to conform HIPAA’s enforcement regulations to statutory revisions made by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The HITECH Act, which was enacted as part of the ...
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- Is there a new requirement to encrypt all electronic PHI under HIPAA?
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company sponsors a self-insured health plan and, as part of our risk analysis under HIPAA’s security rule, we decided to rely on firewalls and other access controls to make electronic PHI inaccessible, as opposed to ...
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- Requiring Employees to Complete Health Risk Assessments in Order to Receive HRA Reimbursements Violates the ADA
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- An EEOC informal discussion letter discusses whether an employer’s requirement that employees complete a health risk assessment in order to receive medical expense reimbursements from the employer’s health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) violates the ADA. The assessment ...
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- GINA Regulations Address Collection and Use of Genetic Information, Limit Scope of Health Risk Assessments
- From the October 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- Last week we reported that two sets of rules covering the group health and individual market requirements of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) had been released. Both sets of rules have now been published in the Federal ...
