Employer’s Guide to the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

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The Employer’s Guide to HIPAA provides everything you need to comply with HIPAA’s vast and still-evolving requirements, including the stricter HIPAA portability requirements imposed by the March 2010 health reform law, other recent laws on genetic discrimination and mental health parity, and the tighter privacy and security controls imposed by the HITECH Act. This easy-to-use two-volume looseleaf manual navigates you through the new and existing requirements, providing helpful guidance so you can avoid civil penalties, excise taxes, employee lawsuits and criminal prosecution.

Topics include:

• Determining which health reform mandates apply to your plan, and when
• Setting up a breach notification process and reopening vendor contracts, as needed, to meet the new privacy and security requirements
• Complying with the recent CHIP reauthorization law’s new special enrollment rights and notice provisions
• Restructuring your benefits to meet the expanded requirements for parity of mental health and “substance use disorder” coverage
• Meeting the new restrictions on collecting and using genetic information, which includes family history
• Assessing the security risks to your electronic records
• Making sure your wellness programs and other benefits don’t discriminate by “health status”
• Keeping abreast of the latest court cases on pre-existing conditions and other coverage exclusions
• Understanding HIPAA’s interaction with ERISA, COBRA, the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act

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Mark L. Stember is a partner with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Washington, D.C. He concentrates his practice on health and welfare benefits, flexible compensation, fringe benefits, executive compensation and qualified retirement plans. Stember co-chairs the Welfare Plan Design and Funding subcommittee for the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Taxation. He is also a co-chair of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits' Health and Welfare Benefit Plan National Institute that meets annually in Washington. Stember is contributing editor of the Employer's Guide to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Terry Humo, Esq., is a benefits consulting attorney based in Missoula, Mont. Humo is a board of directors member of the Wye River Group on HealthCare, a health care policy group in Washington, D.C. Humo formerly was a vice president and benefits consulting attorney with Sedgwick Noble Lowndes, corporate counsel with Intermountain Administrators and assistant vice president and benefits consulting attorney for Marsh, Inc. He is the author of numerous publications on health and other welfare benefits, including the Employer's Guide to HIPAA, the Employer's Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits and the ERISA Health and Welfare Handbook, published by Thompson Publishing Group.

Editorial Advisory Board for Employer's Guide to the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

Kathryn Bakich, Esq.
The Segal Company
Washington, D.C.

Rich Glass, J.D.
Infinisource, Inc.
Dallas

Paul M. Hamburger, Esq.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Washington, D.C.

Jack B. Helitzer, Esq.
Fairfax, Va.

Terry Humo, Esq.
Missoula, Mont.

Joanne Hustead, Esq.
The Segal Company
Washington, D.C.

Mark E. Lutes, Esq.
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Washington, D.C.

Joseph A. Murphy, Jr., Esq.
Washington, D.C.

Jon A. Neiditz, Esq.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Atlanta

George Pantos, Esq.
WellNet Healthcare
Bethesda, Md.

Mark L. Stember, Esq.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Washington, D.C.

Roberta Casper Watson, Esq.
Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O'Neill & Mullis PA
Tampa, Fla.