The U.S. Department of Labor has published a final rule on Nov. 17 to update its regulations under the 15-year-old Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) — a measure that will help workers and their employers better understand their rights and responsibilities, and speed the implementation of a new law that expands FMLA coverage for military family members.
This final rule, for the first time, gives America’s military families special job-protected leave rights. Click here for new rules
The attached document below contains final rules governing the provisions prohibiting discrimination based on a health factor for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan.
These final regulations apply for plan years beginning on or after July 1, 2007.
On September 15, 2008 Staten Island University Hospital agreed to return $88.9 million that prosecutors say it fraudulently obtained from government health insurance programs, one of the largest settlements of such a claim ever paid by a single hospital. This is the fraud that will continue under a single payor health care delivery system.
