Our world is a complicated one with many different areas that involve regulation and compliance. Some categories we are all familiar with are EPA, OSHA, and DOT regulations. It's important to keep up with news and legislation proposals. There are also federal regulations such as the corporate governance Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the antiterrorism USA Patriot Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It's important to understand what's required for your business and industry . There are some common areas that run across different professions as well such as the archiving of e-mail, documenting financial transactions, protecting the confidentiality of certain records and standardizing, storing, retrieving and delivering data. Thanks for looking for cobra compliance at our site.
Here's some news on policies, legislation and industry updates discussing IT compliance, HIPAA and other areas:
VA Provides Newborn Care for Women Veterans
 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has officially issued a regulation amending its veteran's health benefits package to pay for up to seven days of medical care for newborn babies of women veterans who are receiving VA maternity care benefits.
Read Full Post VA Provides Newborn Care for Women Veterans originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 04:00:16. Permalink | Comment | Email this
CDC Also Provides Free Breast Cancer Screening
 Neither to condemn nor condone the decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to suspend its funding of Planned Parenthood organizations, it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), through the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides free breast and cervical cancer screening services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved women nationwide.
Read Full Post CDC Also Provides Free Breast Cancer Screening originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 18:28:07. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Quality Monitoring In Call Centers
Call centers are expensive to set up and operate. It's important that they operate efficiently. It's also important that they serve their purpose of making sure the customers are satisfied ...Read Full Post
Additional Selections:
Health Care Continuation Coverage; Final Rule [Rules and...
...to as the COBRA provisions, and the continuation coverage that they mandate is commonly referred to as COBRA coverage. The COBRA provisions of...
National Benefit Services, Inc. COBRA Compliance Timeline
1. For termination of employment, death of employee, and Medicare entitlement: 149 day max to first premium payment.
U.S. Department of Labor - Find It By Topic - Health Plans -...
Information on the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) which gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the...
COBRAPRO
Offers full COBRA Administration Services as well as a self administration guide to COBRA compliance.
COBRA Compliance Systems, Inc. is now Infinisource, Inc.
COBRA Compliance Systems, Inc. is now Infinisource, Inc. offering a diverse menu of employee benefits administration and compliance services.
Remember: One must keep on top of Local, State and Federal Government Agencies regulations.
Here are some federal listings:
• CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
• Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998
• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
• Fair Credit Reporting Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
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Learn a term related to compliance:
Business Resumption Plan – BRP is the operations piece of business continuity planning and provides procedures for recovering business operations immediately following a disaster. This plan requires the existence of documentation of critical business functions that need to be recovered for business processes to continue and addresses the business processes. It is not Information Technology based. The IT focus only supports the business processes
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