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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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- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- 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/...
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- 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 ...
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- EEOC Staff Members Provide Informal Views on Health Risk Assessments, ADA, and Other Benefit-Related Issues
- From the July 16, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association has reported on its May 6, 2009 Q&A session with EEOC staff members. The report includes the following informal, nonbinding remarks regarding health risk assessments, the ...
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- Informal Discussion Letter Indicates That Requiring Health Risk Assessments to Obtain Health Coverage Violates the ADA
- From the May 07, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In this informal discussion letter, an EEOC official addresses whether an employer’s requirement that employees participate in a health risk assessment in order to obtain coverage under the employer’s self-funded health plan violates the ADA. ...
