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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan admin - misc Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Putting Benefit Plans Out to Bid May Reap Savings Employee Benefits Update, June 2009 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Health Plan Participant's Emotional Distress Charge Preempted by ERISA Health Care Reform Update as of June 17, 2009 [Guidance Overview] Are Stop Loss Carriers Subject to Prompt Pay Statutes? IRS and DOL Priorities: Spring 2009 Regulatory Agenda Key Health IT Definition Expected Soon How Safe Are Your Medical Records? How The White House Hopes to Control Health Care Costs GM Retirees Face An Uncertain Future [Guidance Overview] Untapped Opportunities for Actuaries in the Health Industry [Guidance Overview] Fiduciary Exception Eclipses ERISA Fiduciary's Claim of Attorney Client Privilege Putting Healthcare Plans Out to Bid Can Reap Savings [Guidance Overview] District Court Within Ninth Circuit Holds That Priority Language in Health Plan Overrides Make-Whole Rule [Guidance Overview] Lack Of Due Diligence Resulted In ERISA Fiduciary Liability For Defaulted Loans from Welfare Trust [Guidance Overview] Allegations Were Insufficient To Assert Equitable Relief In ERISA Reimbursement Case [Opinion] American Benefits Council Comment Letter to FTC Regarding Protected HITECH Health Information Guidance (PDF) GM Files for Bankruptcy Protection; 17.5% Ownership by VEBA Is Proposed [Guidance Overview] 6th Circuit Says ERISA Does Not Preempt State Laws Preventing Insurers From Including Discretionary Language in Insurance Policies The Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector: Structure and Functions EBSA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Addresses Mental Health Parity IRS Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Includes Filing Solution for Schedule SSA [Guidance Overview] Steps for Ending a Health Plan or Health Benefit Option [Guidance Overview] DOL Unveils COBRA Appeals Process Management Analysis of Approaches for Expanding Access to Health Care What Does It Cost Physician Practices to Interact with Health Insurance Plans? Milliman's Monthly Benefit News and Developments, May 2009 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] EEOC Warns Employers about ADA Impact of Health Assessments [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin Monthly Health & Welfare Regulatory Round-Up, April 2009 (PDF) From Managed Care to Higher Costs for Patients to Insurer's Provider-Cost-Containment Measures to Provider Backlash [Guidance Overview] FTC Proposes Health Breach Notification Rule [Official Guidance] DOL, HHS Request Nominations for Members of New Children's Health Insurance Program Working Group (PDF) Sebelius Clears Senate Hurdle to Get HHS Seat [Guidance Overview] The Imminent New Mandatory Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Rules (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Health Care Claims and the Transition to the ICD-10 Coding Standard (PDF) [Guidance Overview] A Periodic Snapshot of What's Happening in the Multiemployer Health Plan Environment (PDF) Consolidating Benefits Administration a Top Priority for Multinationals [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin Monthly Health & Welfare Regulatory Round-Up, March 2009 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New Laws And Drafting Tips for Welfare Plans In 2009 [Guidance Overview] Health Plan's Appeals Process Failure to Substantially Comply With ERISA's Claims Procedure Requirements [Guidance Overview] ERISA Insurer Entitled to Offset Settlement on 2nd Medical Condition [Guidance Overview] Judicial Development - Gertjejansen v. Kemper Ins. Co. House Passes H.R. 1253, the Health Insurance Restrictions and Limitations Clarification Act of 2009 Strategies to Maximize Your Health Care Vendor Relationships [Guidance Overview] Bankrupt TPA Is a Fiduciary, and ERISA Plan Assets Held in Its Bank Accounts Can't Be Reached by Non-ERISA Creditor [Guidance Overview] Employer Must Provide Claims Administrator's Internal Guidelines Relied on in Denying Participant's Claim [Guidance Overview] EEOC Proposed Regulations Clarify Definitions and Prohibitions of GINA Public Sector Strategic Health Care Plan Design (PDF) [Guidance Overview] CMS Delay of MSP Mandatory Reporting for HRAs and Provision of Other Guidance for Group Health Plans Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Proposes Rule Implementing Title II of Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin Monthly Health & Welfare Regulatory Round-Up, February 2009 (PDF) Employers Review Who Is Covered Under Health Care Plans Benefit Plan Oversight During a Recessionary Economy [Guidance Overview] CHIPRA: How it Affects Your Group Health Plan EEOC Seeking Public Comment on Proposed Rules to Implement Genetic-Discrimination Law Passed Last Year Data Use Will Set TPAs Apart in the New Economy [Guidance Overview] New Jersey Insurance Regulation Restricting Discretionary Clauses Fails to Affect ERISA Standard of Review [Guidance Overview] New Federal Laws Affecting Group Health Plans (PDF) IRS Employee Plans FY 2009 Work Plan of Operating Priorities (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Employee Wins Claims for Breach of Fiduciary Duty Against Employer That Failed to Pay Health Plan Premiums to Insurer 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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