The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“PPACA” or “Obama Care”) requires, beginning in 2014, that employers with 50 or more full-time employees (“large employers”) offer “affordable” health insurance to its employees. Failure to do so will subject the employer to penalties.
Future blog postings will address the coverage requirements and penalties under
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently released its HIPAA audit protocol. Audits of HIPAA compliance were mandated by the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act, which amended many parts of HIPAA and included breach notification requirements.
The OCR conducted a number of
The recent increase of prescription drug abuse led both chambers of the New York State Legislature to pass the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing (I-STOP) Act on June 11, 2012. The legislation seeks to tighten control over certain controlled substances in an effort to decrease criminal diversion and abuse of such prescription drugs which can
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate not because it is as an exercise of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause, but because the mandate is within Congress’s power to lay and collect taxes.
On Medicaid expansion, the Court ruled that the Act violates the
With a decision by the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expected shortly, the New York Times has published a simple interactive tool examining the potential impact of the decision if the Court were to strike all, some, or none of the provisions of the law commonly knows
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released a final rule concerning Health Insurance Exchanges (“HIE”) on March 12, 2012. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on March 27, 2012. In late March, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and