EBIA Weekly Archives - HIPAA
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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 ...
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- HHS's OCR Officials Provide Informal Views on Upcoming HIPAA Guidance and More
- From the October 01, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association has reported on its May 2009 Q&A session with officials from HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Highlights include the following informal, nonbinding remarks ...
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- Online Form and Instructions Available for Reporting Breaches of Unsecured PHI to HHS
- From the October 01, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has posted on its website instructions for reporting breaches of unsecured PHI to HHS, as well as an online form to be used by covered entities for this purpose. By way of ...
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- GINA Rules Covering Group Health and Individual Market to Be Published in the Federal Register Next Week
- From the October 01, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- Advance copies of two sets of rules covering the group health and individual market requirements of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) have just been released. Both sets of rules are scheduled to be published in the Federal ...
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- Insurer Not Liable for Discontinuing Small Group Supplemental Medical Policy
- From the September 24, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- A small employer and its owners (a married couple) sued the insurer for the employer’s medical plan to challenge the discontinuance of a small group supplemental policy that had provided coverage under the plan for many years. It ...
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- IRS Issues Final Regulations on Excise Tax Reporting and HSA Comparability
- From the September 10, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has issued final regulations on the HSA comparability rules, and on reporting and paying excise taxes for failure to comply with comparability requirements or various group health plan mandates (including COBRA and HIPAA). There are few differences between ...
