Compliance Perspectives: Healthcare Compliance at the Border
The Right of Access Initiative by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began in 2019. On September 20, 2022, the OCR published its latest press release on the matter...more
Medical providers operating in Minnesota must be aware of the Minnesota Health Records Act’s (“MHRA”) requirements to avoid liability exposure. Enterprising plaintiff’s attorneys are bringing these claims at an increasing...more
Standard forms for the authorization of the release of medical information in Ohio have been developed by the Department of Medicaid....more
Ciox Health, LLC (“Ciox”), a release of information (“ROI”) vendor that contracts with hospitals and other healthcare providers to fulfill requests for copies of medical records, filed suit against the U.S. Department of...more
On January 8, 2018, CIOX Health, LLC filed a complaint challenging two HHS policies limiting whether and how much a HIPAA covered entity can charge for providing copies of medical records. According to the lawsuit filed in...more
Over the past year, numerous lawsuits and complaints to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) have been filed by plaintiffs’ attorneys over a seemingly obscure HIPAA issue – the rate that health care providers and their...more