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Pending legislation seeks to limit health insurers’ use of genetic information

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2007

A bill that would prohibit the use of genetic information and genetic testing in underwriting with respect to health insurance and employment was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 25, 2007 by a vote of 420-3

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act finally becomes law

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 15 2008

President George W. Bush recently signed into law H.R. 493, also known as the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants and employees based on genetic tests or genetic information

New York to create new workers’ compensation medical treatment regulations

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 7 2007

New York Superintendent of Insurance Eric R. Dinallo has asked the State’s Workers’ Compensation Board to create new regulations for workers’ compensation medical treatment using recently issued evidence-based guidelines

Finance Committee plan drops public option; provides wiggle room for employer mandate

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 25 2009

Bullet-point presentations currently circulating among members of the Senate Finance Committee offer a snapshot of the options and alternatives being considered for the Committee's reform bill which is slated for markup in mid-July, although this timing may shift

DOL releases model COBRA notices for use under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "ARRA") amends portions of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended ("COBRA"), to require premium reductions and additional enrollment opportunities

New penalty for failing to report payments to Medicare beneficiaries

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 30 2009

Later this week, January 1, 2010 to be exact, a failure to comply with a new requirement for reporting to Medicare payments to Medicare-eligible individuals for resolution of claims involving medical expenses could cost the payor $1,000 per day in penalties for noncompliance

Medicare reporting applies to uninsured liability claims employers may be required to register

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 5 2009

The Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ("MMSEA") implements new mandatory reporting requirements (referred to as "Section 111 Reporting") to allow Medicare to identify medical claims where another entity, not Medicare, is responsible for payment pursuant to the Medicare Secondary Payor rules

COBRA subsidy extended

  • Larkin Hoffman
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2010

Last year, the American Recovery & Relief Act ("ARRA") provided a federal subsidy of 65 percent of the COBRA health premium for individuals who were involuntarily terminated from employment

Everyone remain calm! Health reform passes

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2010

Don't panic

DOL issues three new notices and revised model notices for COBRA subsidy

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 17 2010

In conjunction with the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 that provides for the extension of the COBRA subsidy period to March 31, 2010, the DOL has published new model notices for COBRA and for application for the subsidy

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