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HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates May-Jun 2017

May 4, 2017 | Blog, COIN (County of Orange Insurance News), HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates

From Dorothy Cociu, COIN Editor and HIPAA Privacy & Security Consultant & Trainer May-June 2017 As an update on HHS/OCR enforcement actions, a few important settlements were reported in April. On April 12, 2017, HHS/OCR announced a HIPAA settlement based on...

California’s Insurance Industry Fight of the Decade – What SB-562 Can Do to Our State, Our Industry, and the People of California!

May 3, 2017 | Blog, COIN (County of Orange Insurance News), Single Payer

By: Dorothy Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA Vice President, Communications, OCAHU President, Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services, Inc. Original Full-Length Article (Edited, shortened version appeared in the May-June Issue of the County of Orange...

Making Health Care Great Again Part 2

Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, COIN (County of Orange Insurance News)

By: Dorothy Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA, LPRT, OCAHU V.P. Communications Published by The Orange County Association of Health Underwriters (OCAHU) and posted with permission of OCAHU Last issue, we took a preliminary look into the health insurance marketplace under the...

March and April 2017 Legal Briefing

Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, COIN (County of Orange Insurance News), Legal

By: Marilyn Monahan, Monahan Law Office Posted with permission from Monahan Law Office Published by The Orange County Association of Health Underwriters (OCAHU) and posted with permission of OCAHU This is a summary of some recent developments of interest to...

HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates Mar-Apr 2017

Mar 3, 2017 | Blog, COIN (County of Orange Insurance News), HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates

From Dorothy Cociu, COIN Editor and HIPAA Privacy & Security Consultant & Trainer President, Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services, Inc. March-April, 2017 There is an important deadline of March 1 for any Covered Entity or Business Associates...

“Silent” Returns to IRS

Feb 22, 2017 | Blog

Posted with permission from Monahan Law Office Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you may owe an individual shared responsibility penalty if you did not have qualifying health care coverage for every month of 2016. When you complete your 2016 Form 1040, you will...