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  1. 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)]
  2. 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)]
  3. 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)]
  4. 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 ...
    [ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, Meeting With HHS OCR Officials (May 5, 2009)]
  5. 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 ...
    [HHS Webpage: Instructions for Submitting Notice of a Breach to the Secretary]
  6. 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 ...
    [Interim Final Rules Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Genetic Information in Health Insurance Coverage and Group Health Plans, 74 Fed. Reg. __ (Oct. __, 2009); HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 74 Fed. Reg. __ (Oct. __, 2009)]
  7. 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 ...
    [Treas. Reg. Secs. 54.4980B-2, 54.4980D-1, 54.4980E-1, 54.4980G-1, 54.4980G-3, 54.4980G-4, 54.4980G-6, 54.4980G-7, 54.6011-2, 54.6061-1, 54.6071-1, 54.6091-1, and 54.6151-1, 74 Fed. Reg. 45994 (Sept. 8, 2009)]
  8. Final FTC Rule on Health Information Breach Notification Published With a Quick Effective Date
    From the August 27, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    Last week we reported that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had posted on its website a final rule requiring certain entities not covered under HIPAA to notify consumers when the security of their individually identifiable health information is breached. (See ...
    [Health Breach Notification Rule, 16 CFR Part 318, 74 Fed. Reg. 42961 (Aug. 25, 2009)]
  9. HHS and FTC Issue Final Rules on Health Information Breach Notification Requirements
    From the August 20, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    Important new guidance has been issued by both HHS and the FTC to implement breach notification requirements enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (see our article on these ARRA provisions at http://www.ebia.com/...
    [HHS Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information, 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164, 74 Fed. Reg. 42740 (Aug. 24, 2009); FTC Health Breach Notification Rules, 16 CFR Part 318, 74 Fed. Reg. 42962 (Aug. 25, 2009)]
  10. HHS Delegates Authority for the Administration and Enforcement of the HIPAA Security Rule to OCR
    From the August 06, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    HHS has delegated to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) authority under HIPAA to administer and enforce the security standards for the protection of electronic protected health information (this authority had previously been delegated to the Centers for Medicare and ...
    [Office for Civil Rights; Delegation of Authority, 74 Fed. Reg. 38630 (Aug. 4, 2009)]

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