EBIA Weekly Archives - HIPAA
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- Economic Stimulus Significantly Broadens the Application of HIPAA's Existing Privacy and Security Provisions
- From the February 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- HIPAA’s privacy and security provisions have been greatly expanded and broadened as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Act) signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. (For information about the Act&#...
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- New Law Establishes Additional Special Enrollment Rights, Notice, and Disclosure Obligations for Group Health Plans
- From the February 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- On February 4, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, which extends and expands the state children’s health insurance program (CHIP). Among other things, the new law allows ...
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- HHS Issues Final Regulations Modifying HIPAA Electronic Transactions Standards and Code Sets
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published two sets of final regulations modifying HIPAA’s electronic transaction standards and code sets. The first of the final regulations adopts updated standards for certain electronic health ...
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- White House Asks Agencies to Delay Publication, Effective Dates of Regulations Pending Review
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- On Inauguration Day, President Obama’s Chief of Staff issued a memorandum to executive department agencies and heads, advising them of the President’s plan for managing the Federal regulatory process so as to give his appointees and ...
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- 2008 Form M-1, Including Self-Compliance Tool, Made Available by the DOL With Few Changes From the Previous Year
- From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued the 2008 Form M-1, Report for Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) and Certain Entities Claiming Exception (ECEs). Subject to certain limited exceptions, this annual report must be filed with the ...
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- HHS Issues Guidance on the Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information in a Networked Environment
- From the December 23, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- HHS’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have published new HIPAA guidance as part of a privacy and security “toolkit” to implement a nationwide privacy and ...
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- What is the difference between "consent" and "authorization" for purposes of the HIPAA privacy rule?
- From the December 18, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We have been told that obtaining an individual’s authorization for a disclosure under HIPAA’s privacy rule is not the same as obtaining a consent. Is that correct? What is the difference between an authorization and ...
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- Can our former employee who is on COBRA enroll her spouse, child, and newborn in our health plan in the middle of the plan year?
- From the December 11, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We have a former employee who is currently on COBRA. She is married, has a child, and is pregnant. Her spouse and child were not covered under our plan while she was employed with our company. (They declined coverage ...
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- How does the Pregnancy Discrimination Act affect our company's group health plans?
- From the December 04, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We know that our company is subject to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). How does this affect our group health plans? ANSWER: The PDA (which amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) prohibits employers from discriminating ...
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- DOL's Final FMLA Regulations Expand Upon Qualifying Exigency and Covered Servicemember Leaves, and Much More!
- From the November 20, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has finalized its FMLA regulations. Proposed changes to the original regulations (which date back to 1995) were issued in February 2008 (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/GHPM/Statutes/19296 (Premium Access subscription required)). The ...
