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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Joanna Kerpen |Jamie Weyeneth |Amy Gordon
Effective January 15, 2025, the United States Department ofLabor increased its ERISA health and welfare civil penalties fornoncompliance.SeeFederal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment ActAnnual Adjustments for 2025. Below we have outlined the formermaximum and minimum penalties, the new maximum and minimumpenalties, and the increase.
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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Amy Gordon |Erin Weber |Joanna Kerpen
In the past few months, group health plans have experienced asurge of litigation challenging premium surcharges based onparticipants' tobacco use. As we have previously noted, the Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as amended by the AffordableCare Act (ACA), allows group health plans to offer as much as a 50%incentive, or surcharge, for wellness programs designed to preventor reduce tobacco use.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Amy Gordon |Erin Weber |Jamie Weyeneth
As 2025 begins, we wanted to highlight several important changesthat will impact employer-sponsored group health plans:On December 23, 2024, the Paperwork Burden Protection Act and the Employer Reporting Improvement Act (the Acts)became law.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Susan Nash
AS FOOD PRICES continue to rise, there is one bright star this holiday season. The state’s CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project is back, just in time to provide much-needed food dollars to families facing food insecurity. The CalFresh Pilot gives recipients of CalFresh benefits a dollar back for every dollar spent on fruits and vegetables at participating California retailers.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
mendovoice.com | Susan Nash
FORT BRAGG, CA., 10/29/24 — The Mendocino Coast Health Care District and Adventist Health continue to negotiate a “restructuring” of the existing lease of Adventist Health’s Fort Bragg hospital facility while trying to reassure an anxious public that the hospital will not close. In a third joint statement issued on October 24, both entities said that “there is NO consideration to close the Mendocino Coast Hospital.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Susan Nash |Jamie Weyeneth |Erin Weber
Free Preventive Care Services Under the ACA Can Continue,
but Appointment of USPSTF Found to Be Unconstitutional
Last month, the United States (U.S.) Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit partially upheld a lower court ruling in
Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra that invalidated the
preventive care mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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May 13, 2024 | 
jabfm.org | Susan Nash
AbstractIntroduction: Effective management of hypertension (HTN) is a priority in primary care. With telehealth now considered a staple care delivery method, uninsured and low-income patients without home blood pressure (BP) monitors may need additional attention and resources to achieve successful HTN control. Methods: This prospective study at an underserved community clinic assessed the impact of distributing free BP monitors on patients’ HTN control and therapy adherence.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Susan Nash
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to signin or get access. It is not easy to open one’s heart to the crises of the world, and to observe, gauge, and feel the impact. In The Defense of Poesy (1580), the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney pointed out that the ancient Romans called poets vates (diviner, foreseer, or prophet).
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Susan Nash |Jamie Weyeneth |Erin Weber
New transparency requirements under the Affordable Care Act and
the Consolidated Appropriations Act have ushered in a new era of
fee and pricing transparency with respect to the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) group health plans.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
piedmontexedra.com | Susan Nash
California’s Master Plan for Aging has been lauded as the broadest and most ambitious such plan in the nation. Launched by Gov. Gavin Newson in January 2021, the plan outlines five major goals and a 10-year blueprint for dealing with a population where one in four Californians will be age 60 or over by 2030. Since the plan’s inception, the state has launched or planned 227 initiatives to help older adults in areas ranging from health care to housing to digital access.
