by Ed Fensholt and Ruhe Wadud | October 5, 2021 | Benefits Administration, Compliance Services, HIPAA, The Coronavirus
Federal authorities, in two new announcements, have validated employers’ use of healthcare plan-related wellness programs to incent employees to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine and confirmed that the HIPAA privacy rules do not prevent employers from asking employees or...
by Ed Fensholt | February 16, 2021 | COBRA, Compliance Services, ERISA, HIPAA, The Coronavirus
You’re driving along, your partner’s in the passenger seat playing navigator. You drive smoothly past an exit only to have said partner exclaim, “Hey! Where are you going! You missed our exit!” Your reply: “Well you’re in charge of directions! Give me a little heads...
by Jay Kirschbaum | June 6, 2019 | Compliance Services, HIPAA
The headlines splashed the news about another data breach: this one from Quest Diagnostics, and just days later from LabCorp. Both reported the breaches in recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The filings note that a contractor of both, American Medical...
by Lisa L. Carlson | April 3, 2017 | ADA, Compliance Services, EEOC, GINA, HIPAA, Wellness
Numerous articles have reported that a recent bill passed by the House Education and Workforce Committee – the Preserving Employee Wellness Plans Act (H.R. 1313) – would allow employers to obtain genetic information about their employees which had not previously been...
by Compliance Services at Lockton | January 15, 2015 | Compliance Services, Dollar Limits, Domestic Partners, Employer Mandate, ERISA, Essential Health Benefits, Form 5500s, Health Reform, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, HIPAA, Life Insurance, Medicare, Mental Health Parity, Misc Health Reform, Preventive Care, Reporting & Disclosure, Reporting and Disclosure, Tax Issues
Compliance deadlines for health and welfare plans continue to abound as we start 2015. In the listing below, we focus on compliance deadlines during the first half of 2015. Although Jan. 1 has passed, we have also included items having compliance deadlines related to...
by Mark Holloway | November 14, 2014 | Health Reform, HIPAA
Some of you have expressed dismay at recent EEOC litigation challenging routine (and ACA/HIPAA-compliant) wellness programs for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Turns out Congress is a bit dismayed too. At a hearing yesterday of the...
