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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan admin - misc Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin Monthly Regulatory Round-Up: Health & Welfare (PDF) Small Business Employees Are 50% More Likely To Lose Health Care Coverage [Guidance Overview] 2009 Year-End Health and Welfare Issues [Guidance Overview] Defensive ERISA Preemption Inadequate To Sustain Removal Of Subrogation Dispute [Guidance Overview] Required Health Plan Annual Notices ? 2009 Edition [Guidance Overview] COBRA Subsidy for Jobless Expires Soon [Guidance Overview] GINA Interim Final Regulations Issued; Wellness Programs Impacted (PDF) [Guidance Overview] A Primer On Venue Choice In ERISA Claim Disputes [Opinion] Medical Tourism: Outsourcing Your Health [Guidance Overview] Employer Health Risk Assessments & Wellness Programs -- Still Viable? [Guidance Overview] Medicare Part D Notices to Eligible Individuals Due Nov. 15 (PDF) IRS Requests Applications for IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities [Guidance Overview] Many Health and Welfare Plans to Remain Exempt from Filing New Schedule C of Form 5500 [Guidance Overview] Genetic Nondiscrimination Rules Affect Group Health Plan Practices [Guidance Overview] Health Risk Assessments Face Bias Hurdle [Guidance Overview] HHS Issues Interim Final Rule to Conform HIPAA Enforcement Regulations to HITECH Act Penalty Revisions [Official Guidance] Text of Revised HHS Enforcement Regulations Implementing HITECH Act Provisions, Revised Limits on Administrative Simplification Rule Enforcement (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New Treasury Regulations Require Group Health Plans to Self-Report Excise Tax Liability EEOC Provides Technical Guidance on Pandemic Planning in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act (PDF) IRS Personnel Share Unofficial Comments on Compliance Issues with ABA Employee Benefits Committee [Guidance Overview] IRS Will Be Auditing Company Employment-Tax Practices Beginning in February [Guidance Overview] 2010 Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Medicare (PDF) [Guidance Overview] 2010 Limits for Benefit Plans (PDF) House Committee Votes to Strip Health Insurance Industry of Federal Antitrust Exemption [Guidance Overview] What's in Store for Health Plans? Top 10 Legal Changes for 2009 - 2010 [Guidance Overview] Health Plan TPA Could Still Be a Fiduciary [Guidance Overview] Summary of and Suggested Action Steps to Address the GINA Interim Final Regulations [Guidance Overview] ERISA Section 510: The Setting Is Ripe For Claims [Guidance Overview] Regulations on Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Affect Use of Health Risk Assessments, Other Programs (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Group Health Plan Excise Tax Reporting Obligations Coming in 2010 Employers Are Pushing Ineligible Dependents Out of Health Insurance Plans Developments of Interest in the Multiemployer Health Plan Environment (PDF) Employee Benefits Attorney Nick Ferrigno Dies at 50: A Life Well-Lived Short List of Important Dates to Remember [Guidance Overview] Health Plan Open Enrollment: Effect of GINA [Official Guidance] Text of GINA Regulations from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, IRS, DOL (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Health Insurance Regulations Issued [Guidance Overview] Complying with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 Massachusetts Takes on Identity Theft; Get Ready for the New Data Security Requirements (PDF) [Official Guidance] EBSA Fact Sheet on The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) [Official Guidance] Interim Final Rules Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Genetic Information in Health Insurance Coverage and Group Health Plans (PDF) When HR Asks About Your Health [Guidance Overview] Balance Billing Practices May Constitute Breach of Contract National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009 [Guidance Overview] Mental Health Parity: Is Your Health Plan Ready? Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Chart -- Health and Welfare (PDF) Where ERISA And Workers' Compensation Claims Intersect -- An Insider's Guide Xerox to Buy Parent of Buck Consultants for $6.4 Billion [Guidance Overview] District Court Within The Ninth Circuit Holds That Priority Language Overrides the Make-Whole Rule [Guidance Overview] Red Flags Rule: Application to Health Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Dependent Care Assistant Programs and Transportation Plans [Official Guidance] From EBSA: 45 Frequently Asked Questions About the EFAST2 All-Electronic Filing System [Guidance Overview] Insurer Not Liable for Discontinuing Small Group Supplemental Medical Policy [Guidance Overview] IRS and Treasury Officials Provide Unofficial Views on Imputing Income for Health Coverage and More [Guidance Overview] Sixth Circuit Reviews ERISA Plan TPA Benefit Denial De Novo [Guidance Overview] Headlines in Employee Benefits Law (PDF) Critical Issues in Health Reform: Administrative Expenses (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Governance and Compliance Advisory Update: September 2009 [Official Guidance] Text of Proposed Prohibited Transaction Exemption for GM VEBA's Employer Securities (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Launching Employment Taxes Audit: 6,000 Employers Will Be Receiving Notices Shortly [Guidance Overview] Compliance with Mandatory Reporting Requirements Under Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (PDF) 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. 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