Proposed Rule 19 Mar 2025 compliance, healthcare, regulation, consumer protection, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, sunshine act, intergovernmental relations, health care, conflict of interests, indians, medicaid, youth, civil rights, insurance, brokers, health records, health insurance, hospitals, technical assistance, individuals with disabilities, aged, organization and functions (government agencies), advertising, grant programs-health, taxes, sex discrimination, citizenship and naturalization, advisory committees, public assistance programs, grants administration, women, loan programs-health, state and local governments, enrollment, premium payments, health maintenance organizations (hmo), aca

🏥Proposed Rule for Marketplace Integrity Under the ACA

This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance; failure to file and reconcile; income eligibility verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions; annual eligibility redetermination; the automatic reenrollment hierarchy; the annual open enrollment period; special enrollment periods; de minimis thresholds for the actuarial value for plans subject to essential health benefits (EHB) requirements and for income-based cost-sharing reduction plan variations; and the premium adjustment percentage methodology; and prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 15 Jan 2025 environmental protection, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, nuclear energy, penalties, claims, nuclear regulatory commission, hazardous waste, fraud, civil penalties, freedom of information, confidential business information, organization and functions (government agencies), antitrust, classified information, waste treatment and disposal, nuclear materials, sex discrimination, atomic energy act, program fraud, nuclear power plants and reactors

⚖️NRC Adjusts Civil Penalties for Inflation in FY2025

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. The NRC is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalty for a violation of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, or any regulation or order issued under the Atomic Energy Act from $362,814 to $372,240 per violation, per day. Additionally, the NRC is amending provisions concerning program fraud civil penalties by adjusting the maximum civil monetary penalty under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act from $13,946 to $14,308 for each false claim or statement.

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