Privacy Procedures and Safeguards

[Guest Shawn Bailor]

I am a TRP for the Cafeteria Plan. What sorts of privacy policies and procedures should I have in place to ensure participant confidentiality?

Does anyone have a checklist of actions that I should have in place to safegaurd health care information?

Are there certain laws under HIPPA, DHHS, and ERISA? What about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? ...and which ones are fully or partially implemented?

Thanks for your help.

Shawn

[SLuskin]

EBIA is having a 2 day advanced Cafeteria Plan seminar in Portland Ore in July, This is one of the things I hope to learn there. I do know that the company has to appoint a privacy officer (me).