The Biden Administration has announced its plan to end the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and National Emergency (NE) on May 11,...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its COVID-19 frequently asked questions (FAQs) to address mandatory and...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it is withdrawing its January 2021 proposed rules regarding...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has again extended the public health emergency (PHE) declared for the COVID-19...

In light of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

This is a follow up to our October Update addressing changes to wellness programs effective January 1, 2019. In that update we addressed...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) require that...

Controlling health plans (CHPs), including employer sponsored self-insured health plans, are required to obtain health plan identifiers...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a new proposed rule for public comment, “Administrative Simplification:...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule gives individuals a fundamental right to adequate notice of...

September 23rd 2013 marks the general compliance enforcement date for the Final Rule of the Omnibus Health Insurance Portability and...

In an age of increased health risk awareness and ever-increasing health care costs, programs that promote wellness have become an...

The agencies have jointly issued another set of FAQs (Part V) on the implementation of health care reform, mental health parity, and...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued new proposed rules to modify and strengthen the Health Insurance...

In March 2009, The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued proposed regulations on the Genetic Information...

Introduction: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) contains funding for Health Information Technology (HIT) and...