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March 16, 2001
Today's sponsor: Employee Benefits Business for Sale (click)
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IT Consulting Firm: Delay of HIPAA Privacy Regulation Would Be a Grave Mistake
Excerpt: "According to Gartner, Inc., the recently finalized Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) patient privacy regulation provides the foundation and security insurance necessary to transform the healthcare industry into an e-healthcare industry. Without the HIPAA patient privacy regulation, the e-business transformation of healthcare in the United States is in jeopardy." (Press release on Business Wire)
HHS Invites Electronic Posting of Comments by March 30 on HIPAA Privacy Regs
Excerpt: "Click on the icon above to submit general comments. You may submit comments for specific Sections below." (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Insurer Pays Up After Fight, Per Arizona Prompt-Payment Law
Excerpt: "A new [Arizona] law, which became effective in January, is intended to help health care providers get paid more quickly. Now insurers have 30 days to accept or deny claims and 30 days to pay the claims. The law also requires that insurers have grievance plans in place to handle complaints from physicians and hospitals that haven't been paid, but some physicians say the law doesn't go far enough." (The Arizona Republic)
HIPAA Rules Barring Health Benefits Discrimination
Excerpt: "Since mid-1997 the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has barred group health plans and group health insurance issuers from denying an individual eligibility for benefits based on health factors. HIPAA 'nondiscrimination' also bans charging an individual a higher premium than a similarly situated individual based on a health factor.... [The IRS, DOL and HHS recently] released final rules offering details on these prohibitions." (Deloitte & Touche)
LTC Tax Deduction Bill Cheers Industry
Excerpt: "Insurance agents and companies are lining up in support of legislation introduced by Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., establishing a tax deduction for the purchase of long-term care insurance." (The National Underwriter Company)
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Employee Benefits Business For Sale: Find 'em or Sell 'em Using Our New Online Listing
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Human Resources' Top Five Benefit Priorities
Excerpt: "For the second straight year, nearly three-quarters of human resources professionals rank controlling health care costs as their number one professional priority. These concerns were ranked in the Top 5 Benefit Priorities for 2001 survey (the sixth annual) jointly conducted by the International Society of Certified Employee Benefits Specialists and Deloitte & Touche's Human Capital Advisory Services." (Deloitte & Touche)
Regulatory Blitz and New Administration's Review
Excerpt: "Human Capital I.Q. offers the following chart to summarize some of the most important regulatory guidance, rather than including a complete analysis of each new guidance." (Deloitte & Touche)
Graef Crystal: GE CEO Welch's Pay Shows Capitalism's Ugly Side
Excerpt: "News that General Electric Co.'s Jack Welch made $136 million in 2000 -- an 80 percent increase over 1999 even as total shareholder return fell 6 percent -- convinces me the inmates now run the executive-pay asylum. Luckily, Welch is finally packing it in at yearend: a few more sessions with his compensation committee and Welch might have seen his pay exceed the U.S. gross national product." (Graef Crystal, on Bloomberg.com)
Newly Posted or Renewed Job Openings (Post Yours!)
| Pension Administrator | for Pension Investors Corporation in FL |
| Financial Consultant | for The Stratevest Group in NY |
| Junior benefits consultant | for The Pension Planning Group, Ltd. in NY |
| ERISA Attorney - Part Time | for New York City Law Firm in NY |
| Contracts Analyst | for Fidelity Investments in MA |
| Peoplesoft Benefits Business Analyst | for Philips PACE - A Division of Philips Electronics North America in FL |
| Senior Banking Consultant | for Clark Bardes Consulting/Compensation Resource Group in IL |
| Account Executive | for Clark Bardes Consulting/Compensation Resource Group in IL |
Newly Posted Conferences (Post Yours!)
| Manager Self-Service for HR Intranets | in GA on May 21, 2001 presented by IQPC |
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