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Akerman
June 26, 2025
"Employers should consider whether they, or third-party wellness vendors, are collecting and storing biometric data in a way that triggers state law obligations. Even if an employer doesn’t touch the data directly, liability may attach if the program is employer-sponsored."
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Akerman
Jan. 14, 2025
"New York is the first state in the U.S. to pass a law entitling workers to paid prenatal leave. The law, which took effect on January 1, 2025, requires private sector employers, regardless of size, to provide their New York-based employees with 20 hours of paid leave for prenatal healthcare services during their pregnancy, or related to their pregnancy, during any 52-week calendar period."
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Akerman
Nov. 14, 2024
"Members of the New York City Council are aiming to combat the ongoing mental health crisis, and reduce stress for pet owners in the city, by introducing a bill that would expand the city's paid sick leave law to include time off for employees who need to care for their sick pets. If passed, the legislation would mandate that certain employers provide up to three days of paid leave per year for the care of a pet."
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Akerman
Sept. 20, 2024
"The Final Rule indicates that plans and issuers are ultimately responsible for MHPAEA compliance but that TPAs or other service providers who act as fiduciaries for ERISA-covered group health plans must work with those plan sponsors or issuers to ensure such compliance ... The Departments declined to follow commentators' suggestion that the Final Rule require that plans enter into contracts with TPAs similar to HIPAA business associate agreements that would require TPAs to cooperate with the plans' compliance obligations pursuant to the MHPAEA."
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Akerman
June 4, 2024
"In the newly updated HIPAA Privacy Rule, reproductive health care records have received enhanced protection from disclosure, including as to attempted access by state law enforcement agencies. Employers should take note of upcoming compliance deadlines and obligations imposed by this new HIPAA Privacy Rule."
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New HIPAA Privacy Rule Governing Reproductive Health Care Information Imposes Obligations, Deadlines
Akerman
May 23, 2024
"Plan sponsors will need to contractually obligate certain outside service providers of their plans to comply with the Final Rule by the applicable deadlines and will need to watch for the sample OCR attestation language that is expected to be released later this year."
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Akerman via JDSupra
May 7, 2024
"[E]mployers should take the following steps: [1] Determine which existing non-competes are with Senior Executives.... [2] With regard to Senior Executives that are not currently subject to non-competes, consider strategies for entering into non-competes with these individuals, if otherwise permissible under state or local law, before the Final Rule becomes effective. [3] Tax Exempt Entities should evaluate whether they fall within the FTC's jurisdiction, in which case the non-compete ban requirements will apply to them."
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Akerman
Oct. 20, 2023
"The TPA licensing process can take several months, especially if a significant number of applications are submitted at or around the same time.... [E]xisting PBMs that wish to continue providing PBM services after January 1, 2024, [should] submit the TPA licensing application materials as soon as possible because the Act includes significant penalties and public scrutiny for unlicensed activities."
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Akerman
Sept. 27, 2023
"[It] is clear that [HHS, DOL and] Treasury have lost their way. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has consistently agreed with providers and ruled against the Departments ... The [No Surprises Act] had a simple premise. Figuring out how to implement it has been a procedural nightmare. The Departments must go back to the basics and do what is in the best interest of all parties, but, most importantly, assure that the patients receive the quality healthcare that our system is designed to provide them."
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Akerman
Aug. 29, 2023
"Providers finally obtained court ordered relief to the $350 administrative fee each party was required to pay as part of the Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Process under the No Surprises Act. Until the [HHS, DOL and Treasury] set a new administrative fee amount, the administrative fee for disputes initiated on or after August 3, 2023, will be $50 per party per dispute." [Texas Medical Association (TMA) v. HHS, No. 23-0059 (E.D. Tex. Aug. 3, 2023)]
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