HIPAA Breach After Excel Sorting Goes Wrong
A major southern university medical center had to send breach notification letters after an Excel spreadsheet sort went wrong.
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Change to COBRA Lockbox
The address for mailing payments for continuation coverage, COBRA and retiree coverage administered by Benefit Allocation Systems’ Cobra Control Services (CCS) has ...
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Missing Participant Locating Services
The Department of Labor issued guidance on what steps must be taken to find missing plan participants upon a retirement plan termination.
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Healthcare.gov
The government has committed to revamping the application for coverage on www.healthcare.gov to make sure that enrollment in the Exchange runs more smoothly than last ...
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Question of the Week
Q. Our Health FSA has a 2-1/2 month grace period for incurring claims after the end of the plan year. We have an employee who is participating in the Health FSA in 2014, ...
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Sharing Documents
Employers should be wary of sharing documents containing sensitive information without proper redaction. Failing to properly redact information in a document, including ...
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BAS Call Center
Benefit Allocation Systems, Inc. has a state-of-the-art Client Services center that is equipped to address telephone calls, emails, and faxes timely and accurately. BAS’ ...
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Annual Employee Communications
The fall is a good time for employers to review the annual notices that must be distributed to employees. Some notices are distributed at open enrollment, and others are ...
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Draft Instructions for Health Care Reform Reporting Released
- BAS
- 02.10.2014
- Health Care Reform (ACA)
The IRS issued draft instructions for the forms that employers and insurers must use to report health care reform compliance under Internal Revenue Code section 6055 and ...
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Question of the Week
Q.- Do we have to send a Medicare Part D Notice of Creditable Coverage to our COBRA participants?
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