HIPAA Breach List
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act amendments to HIPAA require the reporting of breaches on unsecured protected health ...
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Question of the Week
Q.- I am an insurance broker with a company that is completely going out of business. Do they have to offer COBRA to their terminated employees?
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Reporting Requirements Based on Employer Size
As a company grows in size, it is important to keep track of reporting rules that apply with each employee milestone. The larger a company gets, the more reporting ...
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Impact of Women-Owned Businesses
The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration supports small business owners and conducts research to understand the needs of such businesses. This ...
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Medical Loss Ratio Rebates Coming Soon
Each year, health insurers must report information about their medical loss ratio to the Department of Health and Human Services. The medical loss ratio (MLR) is the ...
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Limits to Employee Software Downloads
Employers may benefit from implementing procedures to review software employees download to company computers. Monitoring software on company computers can cut the risk ...
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Personalized MyEnroll User Settings
BAS is continuously improving the user experience of MyEnroll both on the employee and administrative levels. Most recently, we have created a new user settings program ...
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Question of the Week
Q.- An employee told us that her husband is contributing to a dependent care flexible spending account plan at his employer. Do we have to limit our employee’s ...
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Senate Health Care Reform Debate
According to multiple news sources, the United States Senate’s latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is stalled. The Better Care Reconciliation Act ...
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Anthem HIPAA Settlement
In the largest data-breach settlement to date, Anthem Inc. agreed to pay $115 million to address claims resulting from a 2015 cyberattack. The attack impacted data of ...
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