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Employee Benefits Likely Impacted by Executive Orders

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During the first weeks of the second Trump Administration, a number of executive orders and other actions have been implemented, with some having potential implications for employee benefits. Executive Orders can, and do,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Disclosure of Full Record to Employer Results in $35K Fine, Broad CAP; Echoes of 2017 HIV Case

It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 7, November 2024

Welcome to our seventh issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. This will be our final issue of 2024. When we started this publication earlier this year, our goal was to provide our clients,...more

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New Reproductive Health Care Privacy Final Rule: Key Compliance Steps and Dates

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state abortion bans, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a...more

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Employers Must Keep Reproductive Health Information About Their Plan Participants Private Under New HIPAA Privacy Rule

Imagine you are a corporate Human Resources/Total Rewards leader who receives a request from a state’s law enforcement agency for health plan records about a plan participant’s abortions or other reproductive health care. How...more

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Wellness Apps and Privacy

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Employers looking to enhance their suite of employee benefit programs, and focused on lessons learned during the pandemic on wellbeing, are interested in providing greater access to wellness tools. And, the vendors who...more

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Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations Excluded by BIPA

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As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

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BIPA Excludes Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations

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As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

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Key Takeaways | Putting Employee Wellness Programs to Work

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During this session, panelists discussed the unique opportunities and challenges of digital-health wellness programs that partner with employers and health plans in considering, adopting and operationalizing wellness programs...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Blurred Lines in Healthcare Employment: HIPAA Implications When Employees are Patients

During the COVID-19 pandemic, questions about employee health-privacy-related symptoms, testing, and vaccination became prevalent in discussions about the workplace at all levels—from “the water cooler” to national news...more

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Benefits Monthly Minute - July 2022

The July Monthly Minute addresses a steep settlement and corrective action plan resulting from a widespread HIPAA breach, along with recent employer-friendly cases that highlight judicial support for inclusion of actively...more

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Myth Buster: Employers, Vaccine Information, and HIPAA

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With the nation’s ongoing focus on COVID-19 vaccinations, you may be hearing information—and misinformation—about your obligations under HIPAA, the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. In this...more

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HIPAA and COVID-19 Vaccination Status: The Office of Civil Rights Issues Workplace Guidance

“The guidance reminds the public that the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not apply to employers or employment records.” On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights...more

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New HIPAA Guidance from OCR on COVID-19 Vaccines and the Workplace

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued guidance regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) privacy rule (the “Privacy Rule”) in the...more

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Back to Business: Five Developments Impacting Health Care Employers - Take 5 Newsletter August 2019

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As summer winds down, the challenges impacting health care employers in 2019 continue to heat up. These challenges include ongoing developments regarding marijuana legalization, employee resistance to vaccination mandates,...more

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District Court Decision Upholds Employer’s Wellness Program But Signals Support for EEOC Positions Going Forward

In EEOC v. Orion Energy Systems, Inc., the Eastern District of Wisconsin rejected the EEOC’s claims that Orion Energy’s wellness program violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). Although the court upheld the...more

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Health care worker sent to jail for HIPAA violations

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When we train employees on HIPAA, we always remind them that HIPAA violations carry significant penalties-both civil and criminal. Our favorite line is “Keep your day job.” Stealing patient information is never worth the...more

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ACA, HIPAA, COBRA and HSA Penalties: What Do They Mean?

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What do all of these acronyms stand for and why do employers and human resource professionals care? These acronyms stand for statutory requirements which apply to employer-provided health plans and stiff penalties can apply...more

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