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Health & Wellness Programs: Legal Impact of Obama Reform
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
The rules for Wellness Programs have drastically changed with the times. Designing a compliant wellness program, let alone introducing program incentives or penalties, is full of potential liability. How can you effectively advise your clients on drafting legally compliant wellness programs that will keep them out of court? Join us for this 60-minute audio conference to discover:
- The five components of a HIPAA-compliant wellness program
- Wellness incentives vs. disability penalties: Keys to walking the tightrope
- Critical issues with "smokers' rates" and required health risk assessments
- Keeping compliant with GINA, ADA, HIPAA and ERISA
- New HIPAA rules: Caps on Incentives, portability & accountability
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
This practical 60-minute audio conference will focus on how you can integrate and implement a compliant policy in light of the many regulatory concerns, such as HIPAA, ERISA, COBRA and the ADA. Health insurance and compliance expert Edward C. Fensholt, J.D. will provide you and your colleagues with the latest Wellness Program information and important restrictions that employers, and their counsel, must not overlook.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- How to Advise on Implementing an Effective and Legal Wellness Program
- Avoid wellness programs that fall under the legal definition of providing "medical care"
- Smoker and non-smoker rates: How to impose them and stay compliant
- HIPAA & ADA: Keys to design program's incentives & surcharges
- Latest GINA & ADA updates: Overcome interpretation challenges
- Tackling the Pure Compliance Issues: HIPAA, ERISA, ADA and Cobra
- Key difference of HIPAA vs Non-HIPAA Wellness Programs
- Avoid noncompliance with ERISA, COBRA , ADA and other federal or state laws
- How to sidestep the pitfalls of in-house or outsourced wellness programs
- Navigate the New Landscape for Wellness Programs
- Effects of health reform law on wellness plan rewards or penalties
- Legal snares of imposing surcharges for failure to cooperate with disease management
- New reform & regulations: How they change incentives
- Live question and answer session - Have your specific Wellness Program questions answered!
- How to Advise on Implementing an Effective and Legal Wellness Program
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SPEAKER
Edward C. Fensholt is an attorney and the Director of Compliance Services at Lockton Benefit Group, the nation's largest privately-owned employee benefits consulting and brokerage firm. His background includes: Eighteen years concentrating in the area of ERISA and other aspects of employee benefits law.
- Extensive experience regarding: Compliance issues under the Tax Code and ERISA with respect to retirement, health and other fringe benefit plans; qualified and non-qualified plan design, implementation and administration; employee benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions.
- Former partner in the employee benefits practice group of a large Kansas City-based law firm.
- Frequent nationwide lecturer on employee benefit matters and published author of articles on employee benefit issues.
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CLE CREDITS
Continuing Legal Education CLE credit is available for an additional $65 per person in states where teleconferences are accredited
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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