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- AlertOn Oct. 21, 2015, the IRS announced cost of living adjustments affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for the 2016 tax year.
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- NewsMore and tougher payer audits are hitting an expanding number of clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups in recent months. Across the nation, experts in medical laboratory billing and collections are reporting that health insurers are auditing for a host of issues, several of them unexpected and without precedent.
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- NewsEstate planning attorneys have been using discounting techniques as an important part of wealth transfer planning for many years. Recently, there have been indications that regulations will be issued soon by the Treasury Department that will significantly curtail this practice.
- NewsA lot of hourly workers are about to get raises — millions of them, in fact. And Ohio’s employers might be affected more than most.
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- Blog PostOctober 5, 2015, the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam – announced they have reached a monumental trade agreement impacting more than 40 percent of the world’s economy and a third of global trade.
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- Blog PostT-Mobile announced that the company it partnered with to run credit checks had suffered a security breach, which allowed hackers access to sensitive data of 15 million T-Mobile credit applicants. The exposed information included the names, addresses, birthdays, and encrypted Social Security numbers and/or encrypted driver’s license or passport numbers of approximately 15 million people who applied for T-Mobile services between September 1, 2013 and September 16, 2015.
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- AlertThe Boston Division of the FBI announced a $558,793 settlement with Strata Pathology Laboratory, Inc. on Oct. 1, 2015, to settle allegations that the laboratory violated the federal False Claims Act.
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To minimize your cyber risk, it is important to have a clear understanding of what critical information and assets you possess, how they are maintained, and what can be accessed. This includes:
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If your Ohio business operates in one of 13 targeted industries, you can soon begin the application process to request workforce training money from the state.
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- AlertThe FCC clarified that efaxes submitted by a conventional fax machine are subject to The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), requiring in most cases prior express consent or an existing business relationship even though the transmission was converted into an email.
- AlertEditor's Note: Next week Pope Francis is scheduled to visit DC. He arrives on Tuesday the 22nd and will address a joint session of Congress on Thursday the 24th. Unless you are coming into DC for the express purpose of seeing the Pope, you might want to consider changing your plans; the entire city is expected to be a logistical nightmare.
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- Blog PostWe rarely think about the fact that our electronic communication will live forever. That is why it is important to remember that you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy when you use the internet or social media today.
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The “Know Before You Owe” mortgage rule,also known as the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures rule, goes into effect on October 3, 2015.
- NewsWhen the local hospital approaches you about selling your practice and converting it to a provider-based outpatient department, you may want to hear them out. There are many benefits to becoming a department of the hospital, but what would it mean for you and the practice you worked tirelessly to build?
- AlertAt least every 12-18 months, federal and state banking regulators conduct an examination of the financial institutions under their jurisdiction to ensure that they are operating in a safe and sound manner and providing fair access to credit.
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- AlertThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced its settlement with an Indiana radiation oncology group under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules for failure to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis and adopt written policies on the removal of electronic media.
- AlertThe Federal Communications Commission ruling this summer on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act had direct implications for many health care institutions – and recent case law continues to define the guidance with respect to health care related debt collection.
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Some members of Congress have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow companies to bring trade secret misappropriation cases in federal court.
- NewsA recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling involving a Ganley Chevrolet dealership could change the way class-action cases are handled in Ohio. Instead of all customers who bought cars under the terms in question automatically becoming part of the class-action suit, the court ruled last month that each customer has to show they suffered damages.
