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HITECH: The HIPAA Beast Rears Its Head Again
2009 Lockton Compliance Newsletter Issue 2 Key Topics: HITECH: The HIPAA Beast Rears Its Head, Again; EEOC Issues Proposed Rules on Employment Provisions of GINA; Four New England States Walk Down the Same-Sex Aisle...; CMS Updates Part D Paramenters for 2010; Revenue Hungry States Ramp Up Surcharges for Healthcare; Some Good News on the COBRA Subsidy Front; EEOC Frowns - More Formally This Time - On Mandatory Health Screens; IRS Offers Guidance on Tax Implications of Wage Payments...; Update on Medicare Reporting Requirements; IRS Allows Optional Withholding Rule for Pension Payments
2008/2009 Winter Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Health Reform projections, the Obama - Biden Plan
2008 Fall Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: The Retirement Plan Fiduciary, Mount Everest and the Wall Street Melt Down; Medicare Expounds on Expansion of Data Collection; Wellness Programs May Get Sick Under Recent Law Changes; The State of the States; Retirement Roundup; and In the Courts.
2008 Summer Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Benefits For the Discriminating Employer; More Employees Looking For Ticket To Ride; IRS Issues Rules For Health Coverage Through Divorced Parents; Virtual SPD May Mean No SPD; Snake Bit: Employer Loses Bid To Avoid Cobra Coverage; and Benefits ER.
2008 Spring Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Mandated Paid Sick and Family Leave Laws; Department of Labor Proposes Massive Rewrite of FMLA Regulations, Asks for Comments on New Categories of FMLA Leave; IRS finalizes HSA Regulations on Comparable Employer Contributions; Labor Department Audits Wellness programs, Addresses Medicaid Coordination; and Retirement Roundup.
2008 Winter Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Companies Look at Insourcing, "Offshoring" to Hold Down Healthcare Costs; The Times They are A-Changing for Form 5500 Filings; Benefits ER: Calculating Imputed Income for Domestic Partner Coverage; IRS Provides Guidance on Expenses Payable Under Health FSAs, Debit Cards and Transit Passes; Retirement Roundup; Snake-Bit: Courts Offer Up Interesting COBRA Decisions
2007 Fall Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Presidental Candidates Address Health Reform, Planning for the New Secion 125 Rules, the State of the States: Health Reform Summary, From the Bench: Select Court Cases Affecting Benefits, Retirement Roundup, Benefits ER: HSA Meltdown
2007 Summer Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Nontaxable benefits; Court rules employer not required to provide contraceptive coverage; Supplemental plan exception to HIPAA nondiscrimination; Benefits ER: Discriminatory retiree coverage
2006 Fall/2007 Winter Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Extended Coverage for Dependent Children; Review of Select Federal Developments; Domestic Partners Meet HRAs; Benefits ER
2007 Spring Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Health Reform Train Keeps Rolling; National Provider Identifiers; Benefits ER
2006 Summer Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Supreme Court Upholds Subrogation Rights; Health Reform Train Stops In Vermont And Missouri; IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Affecting DCAP's; UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: What The DOL Looks For on Audit
2006 Spring Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: The Caissons Keep Rolling…and the Regulations Keep Coming; Age Discrimination: Everything Old is New Again; Revisiting the Roth 401(k); Benefits ER; Matching or Incentive HSA Contributions: Maybe not so simple after all
2006 Winter Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Update; Electronic Benefit Notices; Primer on Health Reimbursement Arrangements; Reporting "Grace Period" Payments from a DCAP
2005 Fall Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: Out of Control: The Tax Code's "Controlled Group" Rules Leave Many Plans Out of Compliance; Roth 401(k)s Debut; Non-Qualified Retirement Plans; Form 5500 Times and Reminders
2005 Summer Compliance Newsletter
Key Topics: COB Trap for the Unwary; HIPAA--Final Portability Regulations; Association Health Plans; Mandated Coverage Initiatives
Medicare, Medicaid Deadline Looms
Lockton's tips for employer group health plansLockton's Ed Fensholt and Mark Holloway offer commentary and guidance in Benefits Law Journal on handling the requirements of the new MMSEA claims rules.
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