Incentives

Getting Employees To Care About A Compliance Policy

by Thomas Fox on 5/23/2013

Putting a compliance policy into practice is not something that most companies do very well. How do you get buy-in for a new or amended compliance policy? ...more

Big Incentives for Investments in Cybersecurity

by Javier Siervo | Berkeley Research Group, LLC on 5/17/2013

Recently, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law the Cybersecurity Investment Incentive Tax Credit. The credit is to be used against the state income tax of a Maryland cybersecurity company. To be eligible for the...more

Global Connection - May 2013: Ninth Circuit Strikes Down $45 Million Class Action Settlement and Issues Warning About Use of...

by Daniel Huitink | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. on 5/9/2013

Citing a conflict of interest between class representatives and a class, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently invalidated a $45 million class action settlement that had previously been approved by the district court....more

CMS Proposes Increased Rewards for Reporting Fraud and Abuse

by Ameena Ashfaq, B. Scott McBride | BakerHostetler on 5/7/2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a proposed rule modifying certain provisions in their Incentive Reward Program (IRP) to sweeten the incentives for reporting sanctionable conduct....more

CMS Proposes Additional Incentives to Reduce Medicare Fraud Including Increase to Reward for Reporting Fraud

by King & Spalding on 5/1/2013

On April 24, 2013, CMS issued a proposed rule that would further incentivize Medicare beneficiaries and other individuals to report suspected Medicare fraud under the Medicare Incentive Reward Program. CMS is proposing to...more

The Shale Play Today - April 2013

by M. Ann Bradley, Michael Connelly | Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/1/2013

In This Issue: - Pa. Supreme Court Issues Decision in Butler Case - Hydraulic Fracturing - Studies Without End - Pending Pa. Legislation Gives Incentives for Natural Gas Vehicles - Atlantic...more

New Whistleblower Bounty Law On The Horizon In NY?

by Steven J. Pearlman, Daniel Saperstein | Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation on 5/1/2013

On March 22, 2013, the New York State Senate introduced the S4362 Proposal which, through a “bounty,” gives financial awards to whistleblowers who provide original information to the Department of Financial Services (DFS)...more

Inside M&A - Spring 2013

by Joseph S. Adams, Robert Clary II, Thomas P. Conaghan, Jeffrey Holdvogt, Joanne Ludovici, Jennifer Mikulina, Jeffrey Rothschild, Jake Townsend, Jeffrey Wagner | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/30/2013

Top Five Traps for the Unwary in Spin-Offs - A wave of corporate breakups has swept through the United States over the last few years as investors have taken notice of the fact that smaller companies focused on a...more

Ninth Circuit Rejects Class Action Settlement Providing Conditional Incentive Awards

by Nathan Catchpole, Alan S. Kaplinsky, Burt M. Rublin | Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/25/2013

Earlier this week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed approval of a $45 million class action settlement that had been reached with three credit reporting agencies in Radcliffe v. Experian...more

Doing Business in the U.S.

In This Issue: - Preface - Chapter 1 Choice Of A Business Entity - Chapter 2 Introduction To Federal Securities Laws - Chapter 3 From Let’S Go Shopping To Closing: U.S. M&A Process - Chapter 4...more

President Obama's 2014 Budget Proposes to Tax Carried Interest as Ordinary Income

by Christopher Cawley, Richard Schaul-Yoder | Foley Hoag LLP on 4/12/2013

Yesterday, President Obama issued his Administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, which includes a proposal to tax carried interests (also known as “performance allocations” or “incentive allocations”) in investment...more

Wellness Programs—Money and Trinkets for Healthy Habits May Be Taxable

by Aimee Dreiss, Vicki M. Nielsen | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/11/2013

More and more employers and insurance companies are providing incentives and rewards to employees and their covered dependents to encourage participation in wellness programs. These programs are designed to improve an...more

NIST Holds First Workshop on Executive Order Cybersecurity Framework

by Michael Baader, Jamie Barnett, Dismas Locaria, Anthony Rosso, Sejal Shah, Jason Wool, Brian Zimmet | Venable LLP on 4/11/2013

On April 3, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a workshop at the Department of Commerce in which it offered a sneak preview of the Cybersecurity Framework required under the recently-issued...more

Money And Trinkets Provided For Wellness

by Aimee Dreiss, Vicki M. Nielsen | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/10/2013

More and more employers and insurance companies are providing incentives and rewards to employees and their covered dependents to encourage participation in wellness programs—programs designed to improve an individual’s...more

New Research Suggests Need To Expand Incentives-Based View Of Housing Crisis

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/8/2013

Recently, researchers from Princeton and the University of Michigan published a paper that examines the role played in the financial crisis by distorted beliefs about house prices, as opposed to the role of poorly designed...more

Still No EEOC Guidance on Permissible Wellness Program Incentives

by Austen Townsend | Proskauer - ERISA Practice Center on 3/25/2013

Despite the clear support for employers’ continued and expansive use of wellness programs as a means of promoting health and preventing disease expressed in the Affordable Care Act and the recently-proposed rules implementing...more

OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion on FQHC Limited Issuance of Gift Cards

by King & Spalding on 3/21/2013

In a recent favorable advisory opinion, the OIG reviewed a Federally qualified health center’s (FQHC) proposal to offer $20 grocery store gift cards to certain patients in capitated managed care plans as an incentive for such...more

OIG Issues Updated Guidelines on State False Claims Laws

by King & Spalding on 3/21/2013

On March 15, HHS OIG issued updated guidelines regarding how it will evaluate State false claims acts. Under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, States became eligible for financial incentives (i.e., retaining a larger share...more

NYS Public Service Commission Approves Increased Incentives for On-Site Wind Energy Program

by Donald Ross | Phillips Lytle - Renewable Energy on 3/4/2013

Faced with the twin challenges of meeting New York State’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (“RPS”) — which sets renewable energy consumption targets and milestones for the State — and the current economic conditions which have...more

Renewable Energy Update -- February 26, 2013

by William R. Devine, Emily L. Murray, Patrick A. Perry | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 2/27/2013

In This Issue: Renewable Energy Focus - Wind, solar, biomass provide all new US electrical generating capacity in January 2013; Hard session ahead for renewable energy advocates in Texas; Xcel wants to give developers...more

Delaware Amends Abandoned And Unclaimed Property Self-Disclosure Program

by BuckleySandler LLP on 2/25/2013

Recently, Delaware enacted HB 2, which amends the state’s voluntary self-disclosure program for abandoned and unclaimed property. Among other things, the bill creates additional incentives for holders of such property to...more

CMS Requests Comments on Redundant Reporting of Clinical Quality Measures

by King & Spalding on 2/15/2013

CMS is seeking input regarding ways in which eligible professionals might use clinical quality measures (CQM) data reported to medical boards, specialty societies, regional health care quality organizations or other...more

Attestation Deadline is February 28, 2013 for Medicare Eligible Professionals Who Participated in the 2012 EHR Incentive Program

by King & Spalding on 2/4/2013

Eligible professionals (EPs) who participated in the 2012 EHR Incentive Program must attest by February 28, 2013, to receive their Medicare incentive payments. ...more

CFPB issues final rules on incentives and mandatory arbitration

by Joey Tsu-Yi Chen, Donald Rea | Saul Ewing LLP on 1/28/2013

The CFPB issued final rules reducing the financial incentives for loan officers and brokers in "risky and high-cost" consumer loans and toughening qualification standards for loan originators....more

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