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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan admin - HIPAA Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Workplace Wellness Programs: Trends, Changes in the Law Starting in 2014, and Issues to Watch Providing Incentives for Healthy Behaviors for Employee While Theading the HIPAA Privacy Needle Proposed Meaningful Use Stage 2 Regs Draw Strong Reaction [Guidance Overview] Medical Professional Association Hit with HIPAA Penalty Over Health Information in Insecure Emails and Text Messages Major Reported PHI Breaches Hits 400 with Theft as Primary Type of Breach [Guidance Overview] Arizona Surgical Practice to Pay $100,000 in HIPAA Settlement Cyber Liability Insurance: Protecting Public Sector Plans against Inappropriate Participant Information Disclosures (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Proposed HIPAA Regs Address Unique Health Plan Identifier and ICD-10 Compliance Date [Official Guidance] Text of HHS Proposed Rule on Administrative Simplification: Adoption of a Standard for a Unique Health Plan Identifier; Addition to the National Provider Identifier Requirements; and a Change to the Compliance Date for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Medical Data Code Sets (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Official 'Fact Sheet': HHS Proposes HIPAA Standard for a Unique Health Plan Identifier [Official Guidance] Text of Proposed HHS Regs Requiring Health Plan Identifiers and Extending Compliance Date for ICD-10 Code Sets for Billing (PDF) Final HITECH Rules Reach OMB Strong Privacy and Security Rules Crucial to Success of Health Insurance Exchanges Mandated by Health Care Reform [Guidance Overview] $1.5 Million Settlement after HIPAA Security Incident Results in More than $17 Million in Investigation and Remediation Costs [Guidance Overview] Insurer Pays $1.5 Million in First Settlement Resulting from HIPAA Breach Report Data Breach Leads to First HITECH Enforcement Settlement [Guidance Overview] Finding the Messages to Employers in $1.5M HIPAA Settlement [Guidance Overview] HHS Settles HIPAA Case with Insurer for $1.5 Million Insurer, Office of Civil Rights Reach $1.5M Settlement for HIPAA Breach Privacy and Security Issues Affecting Employee Benefit Plans [Guidance Overview] Despite Multiple COBRA Notice Problems, Court Imposes Nominal Penalty [Guidance Overview] Audits Heat Up HIPAA Liability: What to Do Now to Mitigate Risk [Guidance Overview] IRS Updates Form 8928 for Self-Reporting of Excises Taxes Owed for PPACA Failures First HIPAA Enforcement Action Against a Business Associate (and the Plot Thickens with Transparency Demands) [Guidance Overview] Ninth Circuit Holds That Federal HIPAA Preempts Montana's 'Little HIPAA' Law HIPAA Audits Come with Short Turnaround Times [Guidance Overview] Office of Civil Rights to Conduct HIPAA Compliance Audits [Guidance Overview] HHS Commences HIPAA Pilot Audit Program [Guidance Overview] Update on Fiscal Year Health FSAs and the $2,500 Limit [Guidance Overview] HHS Adopts HIPAA Transaction Standards for Health Care Electronic Funds Transfer and Remittance Advice [Guidance Overview] Court Imposes Statutory Penalties for Failure to Send COBRA Election Notice to Employee's Last-Known Address [Official Guidance] Interim Final HHS Regs: Adoption of Standards for Health Care Electronic Funds Transfers and Remittance Advice (PDF) HIPAA Audits of 150 Plan Sponsors and Employers to Make Sure Employee Health and Financial Records Adequately Protected 2011 Saw Surge in HIPAA Compliance Issues TAA Extension Act Includes Health Coverage Provisions HIPAA Audits Come with Short Turnaround Times HHS Website: HIPAA Privacy & Security Audit Program [Guidance Overview] HHS Rolls Out HIPAA Audit Program [Guidance Overview] HHS Announces Immediate Start to HIPAA Audit Program (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Have the 'HIPAA Police' Finally Arrived? HHS Launches Formal Audit Program [Guidance Overview] HHS Launches Audit Program to Assess HIPAA Compliance [Guidance Overview] HHS to Begin HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits in November 2011 HHS Announces Immediate HIPAA Audit Initiative [Guidance Overview] Proposed HHS Regs Address Health Plan Identifiers and Delay Compliance Date for Use of Standardized Billing Codes Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy