New and Updated in Health and Welfare Plans (Q1 2022) | Practical Law
New from Practical Law Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation! A collection of the top Health and Welfare Plan resources we published or significantly updated during Q1 2022.
New from Practical Law Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation! A collection of the top Health and Welfare Plan resources we published or significantly updated during Q1 2022.
At Practical Law, we never stop expanding and updating our Health and Welfare Plan resources to reflect the latest developments in employee benefits law. The following list reflects some of the most important Health and Welfare Plan resources we published or substantially revised during Q1 2022:
ACA Information Reporting: Employee Statements. This resource is updated for IRS proposed regulations, issued in December 2021, that would make permanent certain compliance extensions related to ACA information reporting of health coverage.
Disposing of HIPAA PHI for Group Health Plans. We updated this resource to reflect recent litigation in which a district court permitted a health plan's independent fiduciary to destroy outdated plan records (some of which contained HIPAA protected health information (PHI)) in the context of the plan's termination.
GINA Compliance for Health and Welfare Plans. This resource is updated to address recent inflation adjustments to penalties for GINA-related noncompliance and administrative guidance addressing GINA and employee vaccinations for COVID-19.
HIPAA Authorization to Use and Disclose PHI. We updated this standard document to reflect HHS guidance addressing how the HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to individuals' disclosures of their COVID-19 vaccination status in the employment and health care contexts (including when they may be required to sign related HIPAA authorizations).
HIPAA Enforcement: Penalties and Investigations. We updated this resource to reflect recent HIPAA enforcement statistics and inflation-adjusted civil money penalties, which became effective in March 2022, for violations of HIPAA's administrative simplification requirements.