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- May a group health plan comply with a law enforcement agency's request for information about a participant?
- From the August 12, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company sponsors a self-funded group health plan that is subject to the HIPAA privacy rules. A law enforcement agency requested the plan's records relating to a participant's prescription drug usage. The agency does not have ...
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- When do the HIPAA privacy rules apply to individually identifiable health information received by our HR department?
- From the July 08, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our human resources department often receives individually identifiable health information from employees, health care providers, or health plans in connection with an employee's request for leave (e.g., sick leave or FMLA leave) or a reasonable accommodation under ...
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- Does a plan have to extend the HIPAA special enrollment period until the end of an individual's COBRA election period?
- From the May 13, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: An employee with employee-only coverage under our company's major medical plan has informed us that her husband will lose his employer-provided group health coverage at the end of May due to a termination of employment. He ...
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- Is a special enrollment right triggered when an employee who previously dropped coverage because she obtained other coverage subsequently loses the other coverage?
- From the April 01, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: One of our employees enrolled in our company's group health plan when she was first eligible, and then six months later she dropped her coverage because she obtained other group health coverage through her spouse's new employer. ...
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- When a group health plan changes insurers, is the terminated insurer required to issue certificates of creditable coverage?
- From the February 12, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- Please see the updated Question of the Week....
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- Can we exchange claims information in connection with a merger or acquisition?
- From the February 05, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company is selling one of is divisions, which has its own self-funded health plan. The prospective purchaser wants to see claims information. Does HIPAA restrict our ability to provide it? ANSWER: It depends on the circumstances. Information ...
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- Under HIPAA's privacy rules, what must be included in an accounting of disclosures?
- From the December 23, 2003 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company's self-funded health plan is subject to HIPAA's privacy rules. We know that the plan must provide individuals with an accounting of certain disclosures of their protected health information upon request. What types of disclosures ...
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- Can our health plan satisfy its HIPAA privacy notice obligation by placing the privacy notice in the plan's SPD?
- From the November 13, 2003 EBIA Weekly
- Please see the updated Question of the Week....
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- Are group health plans required to allow mid-year enrollment?
- From the October 16, 2003 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company maintains an insured major medical plan with the employees' share of premiums payable through our cafeteria plan. An employee was recently married and wants to enroll his spouse for coverage commencing immediately. The plan allows for enrollment ...
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- What is the effect of including references to ERISA in plan documents for an otherwise exempt church or governmental plan?
- From the September 04, 2003 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: My company is a third-party administrator for employee health and welfare plans. We provide services to a wide array of plans that are subject to ERISA, but we also service church and governmental plans. Even though these plans ...
