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HIPAA covered health plans beware: HHS Office for Civil Rights kicks off HIPAA Audit Program

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 7 2012

Since November 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has been conducting audits of covered entities (the “HIPAA Audit Program”) for compliance with the privacy and security requirements under HIPAA and the HITECH Act (collectively, the “Privacy & Security Rules”

COBRA credit expansion enacted as part of Department of Defense Appropriations Act

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 23 2009

An expansion of the COBRA premium subsidy originally adopted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”) was signed into law by the President on December 19, 2009 as part of H.R. 3326 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010