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  1. 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 ...
    [HHS-OCR webpage: HITECH Act Rulemaking and Implementation Update]
  2. 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, ...
    [HHS-OCR webpage: Breaches Affecting 500 or More Individuals]
  3. 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 ...
    [Notice of the Availability of the Model Notice for Employers Regarding Premium Assistance Under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, with Request for Comments, 75 Fed. Reg. 5808 (Feb. 4, 2010)]
  4. 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 ...
    [IRS Form 8928 (Return of Certain Excise Taxes Under Chapter 43 of the Internal Revenue Code) and Instructions (Dec. 2009)]
  5. 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 ...
    [Form M-1 (2009); DOL News Release No. 09-1572-NAT (Dec. 28, 2009)]
  6. 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 ...
  7. 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 ...
    [HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Enforcement, 45 CFR Part 160, 74 Fed. Reg. __ (Oct. 30, 2009)]
  8. 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 ...
  9. 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 ...
    [EEOC Informal Discussion Letter (Aug. 10, 2009)]
  10. 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 ...
    [Interim Final Rules Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Genetic Information in Health Insurance Coverage and Group Health Plans, 74 Fed. Reg. 51664 (Oct. 7, 2009); HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 74 Fed. Reg. 51698 (Oct. 7, 2009)]

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