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66 Matching News Items

1.  Changes to Chicago's Paid Leave Ordinance Create Challenges for Employers
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Nov. 12, 2023
"The new law alters the existing city sick leave requirement creating two separate categories for required paid time off -- five general paid leave days and five paid sick leave days.... [T]he varying types of leave will have different rules for initial eligibility, minimum usage, rollover and payout upon termination."
2.  Substance Abuse Disorder Records Proposed Rulemaking Works Toward HIPAA Alignment
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Dec. 11, 2022
"A major impetus behind this proposed rule is to improve coordination of care, in part by addressing disconnects between Part 2 and [HIPAA]. However, this initiative is counterbalanced by changes intended to strengthen confidentiality protections of SUD records ... If finalized as drafted, the proposed rule also expands breach notification requirements and enforcement teeth."
3.  Paid Military Leave Lawsuits Continue to Capture Attention
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Nov. 16, 2022
"Thus far, no specific group of employees has been awarded a final judgment granting military leave pay, but as the cases are working their way to final resolution, it has become clear that potentially valid paid military leave claims may be brought against employers who cannot distinguish paid leave provided in non-military settings from that sought for military service absences. A few of the significant recent decisions addressing these claims are discussed below."
4.  District Court: CMS Must Immediately Begin Paying Full Reimbursement Rate for 340B Drugs for the Remainder of CY2022
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Oct. 2, 2022
"Despite the Supreme Court's decision in June and CMS's subsequent acknowledgement that the CY2022 cuts would need to be repaid, the agency was still reimbursing Affected Covered Entities at the reduced ASP -- 22.5% rate for 340B drugs billed." [American Hospital Assoc. v. Becerra, No. 18-2084 (D.D.C. Sep. 28, 2022)]
5.  New York State Department of Financial Services Reporting Requirements for Pharmacy Benefit Managers
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Sept. 7, 2022
"Currently, New York requires every pharmacy benefit manager performing pharmacy benefit management services to register with the New York State Department of Financial Services from June 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. On or after January 1, 2024, a pharmacy benefit manager must obtain a license with the New York State Department of Financial Services."
6.  Supreme Court Sides with 340B Program Hospitals in $1.6 Billion Medicare Drug Payment Ruling
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June 15, 2022
"While the Court's decision did not address the merits of 'discriminating against' the 340B Program hospitals, the decision seems to suggest that CMS could have made such adjustments had it complied with the statutory survey requirement. This suggests that the 2020, 2021, and 2022 payment reductions, done in accordance with hospital survey data, may still hold." [American Hospital Association v. Becerra, No. 20-1114 (S. Ct. Jun. 15, 2022)]
7.  New Cook County Ordinance Requires Vaccination Pay for Employees
Quarles & Brady LLP Link to more items from this source
Sept. 7, 2021
"The Ordinance, which became effective July 1, 2021, outlaws taking adverse or negative personnel actions against an employee for taking time during a shift to get a vaccine. Notably, this includes a prohibition on giving the employee attendance consequences for the absence under an attendance policy."
8.  Large Fines Assessed Under Chicago and Cook County Paid Sick Leave Ordinances
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Aug. 23, 2021
"These penalties illustrate the difficulties even sophisticated employers face when trying to comply with the ordinances and, in light of recent amendments, also underscore the need to review and potentially update current policies."
9.  How DOL's Cybersecurity Guidance Impacts Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans
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Aug. 19, 2021
"[T]he DOL did not provide a delayed effective date but considers this guidance enforceable now.... Note that the DOL cybersecurity guidance is very high-level and does not include a lot of detail. That can make it difficult to determine what, exactly, a plan sponsor and a vendor must do."
10.  New Wisconsin Law Regulates PBM and Other Stakeholders Involved in Drug Pricing
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Apr. 8, 2021
"The Act requires a PBM to obtain a license from OCI under the licensure framework that currently applies to employee benefit plan administrators ... The Act specifies that a PBM must submit an annual report to OCI that contains the aggregate rebate amount that the PBM received from all pharmaceutical manufacturers but retained and did not pass through to health benefit plan sponsors and the percentage of the aggregate rebate amount that is retained rebates."
11.  California's New COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave
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Mar. 22, 2021
"Employers who provided COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave for leave taken after January 1, 2021 for the same reasons and at (or above) the same rate as under this new law may count those hours toward the new supplemental paid sick leave obligation."
12.  ARPA Extends FFCRA Tax Credit for COVID-19 Related Paid Leave
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Mar. 21, 2021
"[The ARPA extends] the [FFCRA] tax credits through September 30, 2021. The ARPA also broadens the qualifying reasons for the FFCRA tax credit and imposes a new anti-discrimination requirement."
13.  COVID-19 Vaccinations: Employer Policies and Practices
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Mar. 17, 2021
"Can and should my company require employees to provide documentation verifying vaccination status? ... What do my company's HR employees and managers need to know about employee religious and medical exemption requests? ... How do I handle a teleworking employee who refuses vaccination but is reluctant to return to work for fear of contracting COVID-19?"
14.  Employers May Need to Pay Employees On Military Leave
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Feb. 24, 2021
"[The Seventh Circuit ... became the first federal court of appeals to hold that USERRA requires a private sector employer to provide pay during military leave if it provides pay during other 'comparable' absences, which may include sick leave or jury duty." [White v. United Airlines, Inc., No. 19-2546 (7th Cir. Feb. 3, 2021)]
15.  Arkansas PBM Law Upheld By Supreme Court
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Dec. 13, 2020
"Some ways that the Rutledge decision may change the landscape of PBM regulation or PBM-pharmacy relationships include: [1] States may enact similar legislation. Of note, 47 State Attorneys General made a bipartisan effort to support Arkansas in this litigation.... [2] [S]tates and pharmacy lobbyists may more aggressively explore ways they can expand upon [the concepts in the Arkansas statute] and still avoid pre-emption.... [3] The decision may reinvigorate interest in use of any willing provider laws.... [4] PBMs will face an increasingly complex patch-work quilt of state requirements[.]" [Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Mgmt. Assoc., No. 18-540 (S. Ct. Dec. 10, 2020)]
16.  Medicare Premiums for the First Two Years After Retirement Can Be a Nasty Surprise
Quarles & Brady LLP Link to more items from this source
Oct. 20, 2020
"Retirees, to some extent, can control post-retirement income and could have one eye on the IRMAA premium tables while they do so. Maybe at least so far as not going one dollar over an income bracket and suffering a premium increase for the whole bracket."
17.  New California Leave Law Impacts All Companies with 5 or More Employees; and New COVID-19 Law for Large Employers
Quarles & Brady LLP Link to more items from this source
Sept. 21, 2020
"The CFRA will apply to much smaller employers -- those with five or more employees (down from 50, or 20 employees for new parent leave).... [T]he new law eliminates the requirement that employees work within 75 miles of a worksite.... AB 1867 also immediately established supplemental COVID-19 paid sick leave for private employers with 500 or more employees anywhere in the nation, as well as public and private employers of first responders and health care employees who opted out of the leave under the federal law."
18.  New Coronavirus Relief for Plan Enrollees Means Extra Work for Plan Sponsors, Insurers and Plan Service Providers
Quarles & Brady LLP Link to more items from this source
May 5, 2020
"This Outbreak Period-related extension raises various questions for plan sponsors, insurers, TPAs, PBMs and others, including: [1] Can plan sponsors, insurers and TPAs 'pend' claims while they wait to determine if COBRA is actually elected and paid for? ... [2] Must enrollees be told of this new relief?  ... [3] Must our forms be updated? ... [4] Do we have to go back to March 1 and 'correct' situations that did not follow the new regulations? ... [5] The agencies make it clear that the national emergency may vary in different parts of the country.... [6] Will the Outbreak Period relief create cash flow difficulties for plan sponsors and insurers? ... [7] Must our plans and insurance policies be amended to discuss the Outbreak Period relief? ... [8] How will stop-loss insurance be affected?"
19.  District of Columbia Expands D.C.'s FMLA and Unemployment Insurance Provisions
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Apr. 6, 2020
"The Act creates a new category of protected ['Declaration of Emergency' (DOE)] leave. An employee who is unable to work as a result of COVID-19, during a period of time for which Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a public health emergency, is entitled to DOE leave during that period.... [T]he amount of covered leave is indefinite and lasts during the period of the public health emergency. The DOE leave is unpaid, and the new DOE leave requirement applies to all employers in D.C., regardless of the number of employees they employ in the District."
20.  New Coronavirus Legislation and Its Impact on Health Plans
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Apr. 2, 2020
"The new IRS FAQs [on FFCRA tax credits] are very helpful, but they leave some questions unanswered. For example, can an employer claim a QHPE with respect to its contributions to a multiemployer plan or an association health plan? ... [C]an the administrative fees of third party administrators and pharmacy benefit managers be included? What about stop-loss premiums? ... [M]ust the employer try to actually track which days the employee performed services? ... The CARES Act sets a rate which the insurer or plan must pay, ... These provisions are rather ambiguous."
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