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Jan 13, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Edward I. Leeds |Gregory Szewczyk |Eric Temmel |Mudasar Khan
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Edward I. Leeds |Rachel Loscheider
SummaryThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) updated its 2021 cybersecurity guidance to clarify that it applies to all employee benefit plans. The DOL guidance confirms that plan fiduciaries, including health and welfare plan fiduciaries, have an obligation to evaluate the cybersecurity procedures of plan record-keepers and other service providers.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Edward I. Leeds
SummaryThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the invalidity of regulations governing the independent review process under the No Surprise Billing Rules. The Upshot Out-of-network health care providers challenged the regulations as going beyond the statute and tilting the scales in favor of group health plans and insurers. The court’s decision is the latest setback to regulators’ efforts to set rules governing the No Surprise Billing Rules independent review process.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Edward I. Leeds |Rachel Loscheider
[co-author: Sofia Reed]Over the course of the past few months, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), both of which are divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have issued a series of new regulations and guidance related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). OCR issued a final rule that modifies HIPAA to support reproductive health care privacy.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Christopher A. Jones |Edward I. Leeds |Rachel Loscheider
SummaryThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania changed its tax treatment of assistance that employers provide for dependent care services – including dependent care flexible spending accounts. Retroactive to January 1, 2023, Pennsylvania will no longer tax employees on amounts that employers pay or subsidize for dependent care up to $5,000 ($2,500 for employees who are married and file separate returns).
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
ballardspahr.com | Christopher Jones |Edward I. Leeds |Rachel Loscheider
Summary The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania changed its tax treatment of assistance that employers provide for dependent care services – including dependent care flexible spending accounts. Retroactive to January 1, 2023, Pennsylvania will no longer tax employees on amounts that employers pay or subsidize for dependent care up to $5,000 ($2,500 for employees who are married and file separate returns).
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Edward I. Leeds
You are the HIPAA privacy official of a hospital or health plan (a covered entity under HIPAA). You receive an email from a vendor that handles protected health information (a business associate), informing you that one month ago an unauthorized actor infiltrated its information systems. The intruder may have gained access to information about your organization.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Edward I. Leeds |Rachel Loscheider
As we previously reported, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury jointly issued guidance on the requirement in the CAA that health plans and insurers attest to their compliance with the prohibition against gag clauses.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Rachel Loscheider |Edward I. Leeds
SummaryBy December 31, 2023, health plans and insurers must submit an attestation of compliance with the anti-gag rules of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). The rules apply to all agreements entered into on or after the date that the CAA was enacted (December 27, 2020), and the first attestation applies retroactively to that date. Beginning in 2024, the CAA requires plans and insurers to attest annually to their compliance with this provision by December 31 each year.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
ballardspahr.com | Rachel Loscheider |Edward I. Leeds
Summary By December 31, 2023, health plans and insurers must submit an attestation of compliance with the anti-gag rules of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). The rules apply to all agreements entered into on or after the date that the CAA was enacted (December 27, 2020), and the first attestation applies retroactively to that date. Beginning in 2024, the CAA requires plans and insurers to attest annually to their compliance with this provision by December 31 each year.
