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Reference-Based Pricing Plans Beware: No Surprises Act Awards and Narrow...
Employers sponsoring and fiduciaries administering health plans that rely upon Medicare-based or other reference-based pricing (“RBP”) methodologies with or without narrow network design features to...
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IRC Section 45S Paid Family Leave Tax Credit: What Small Employers Must Do...
Employers with fewer than 25 employees interested in qualifying for the paid family and medical leave (“PFML”) under Internal Revenue Code Section 45S should review and respond to (“IRS”) guidance in...
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Equity-Based Compensation Jeopardy: Employers Should Review FLSA Regular-Rate...
Employers that include stock, stock options or other equity grants, restricted stock units (RSUs), stock appreciation rights (SARs), phantom stock, or other equity-based compensation in the...
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$17M IBM Settlement Adds DOJ False Claims Act Liability To Risks For Using...
The $17 million False Claims Act settlement with technology giant IBM by announced April 10, 2026, using affirmative action or other disfavored diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”) practices...
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Labor Department “OSHA Cares” Initiative Warns Employers To Tighten Compliance
Employers should confirm their safety, injury reporting and other policies meet current Occupational Health and Safety Administration (the “Agency ”) recently amplified its “OSHA Cares” initiative....
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HIPAA Privacy Notice Update Deadline: February 16, 2026
February 16, 2026, is the deadline for health care providers, group health plans and health insurers to update and redistribute their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (“HIPAA”) Notice...
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Prepare For Marketplace Rule Change Fallout
A new Department of Health and Human Services Final Rule will tighten subsidy eligibility and implement other reforms for the the Heathcare Marketplace insurance plans created under the Patient...
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Share Ideas About Patient Empowering Health Technology With HHS By 6/16
Group health plans, their employer and union sponsors, fiduciaries, insurers, administrators, communications and information technology vendors and participants interested in promoting technologies to...
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2026 HRA Inflation Adjustments Announced
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published advanced notice of the 2026 inflation adjusted amounts for Health Savings Accounts (“HSAs”) § 223 of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) and the maximum...
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$1.19 Million Penalty Warns Health Plans and Other Covered Entities To Ensure...
The $1.19 million Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) penalty imposed on a Florida pain clinic this week sends a clear warning to health plans, health care providers,...
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Workforce Strategies For Avoiding Holiday Liability Hangovers
With this week’s Thanksgiving celebrations kicking off the 2024 year-end holiday festivities, wise businesses will proactively act to reduce the risk that their business will start 2025 with a...
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AHIP Survey Shows Workers Value Employer-Provided Health Coverage
Public support and appreciation for employer-sponsored healthcare continues to run high, according to the results of a national online survey of 1,000 people with employer-provided coverage conducted...
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$2.7 Million FCA Cyber Liability Settlement Shows New Tool In Government’s...
The $2.7 million settlement government contractor Insight Global LLC, (“Insight”) is paying to settle a Justice Department (“DOJ”) False Claims Act civil suit for lax cybersecurity shows government...
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New WHD Rule To Raise FLSA Salary Threshold 7/1/24 and 1/1/25
Employers of salaried workers earning less than $58,656 should begin preparing either to increase the compensation or reclassify and pay those workers as hourly and entitled to overtime to comply with...
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Liberty Energy $265,000 EEOC Discrimination Settlement Warns Other Employers
The $265,000 Liberty Energy, Inc. doing business as Liberty Oilfield Services, LLC, will pay to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of three mechanics by the...
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Wage & Hour Takes Aim At Restaurant & Other Hospitality Employers
A slew of recent U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) high dollar recoveries alert restaurant and other hospitality industry employers to clean up their Fair Labor Standards Act...
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Restaurant Pays $167K In Back Wages & Damages For Overtime Violation
West Virginia based Ole Jose Grill & Cantina LLC, paid $167,000 in back pay and penalties to 17 tipped employees after the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division found the employer...
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IRS Warns Of Fraudulent Promotion of COVID Employee Retention Credits
As promoters continue to blanket businesses with promises to secure Employee Retention Credits (“ERCs”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) is warning businesses to review carefully the guidelines...
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New HIPAA Resolution Agreement Warns Health Plans & Other HIPAA-Covered...
A newly-announced settlement agreement and corrective action plan (the “Settlement”) between a prominent New York academic medical center and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
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Work Opportunities Tax Credit Available For Certain Hires Through 2025
Giving a qualifying applicant for a work opportunity in your business might translate into Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) for your business if your business meets and follows the requirements....
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