Executive orders and changes to enforcement directives permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and agents from other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security to enter sensitive locations, such as...more
1/31/2025
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EMTALA ,
Executive Orders ,
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Healthcare Facilities ,
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Immigration Enforcement ,
Medicare ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws
We just want to provide a friendly reminder that, before key staff depart for the holidays, HIPAA covered entities and business associates should finalize their compliance with the 2024 HIPAA amendments related to...more
12/19/2024
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Healthcare ,
New Amendments ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Settlement
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that HHS's December 1, 2022, guidance applying HIPAA to online tracking technologies is unlawful with respect to its treatment of certain combinations of...more
The FTC issued a final rule to lock in changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) that it proposed in May 2023. While the HBNR began as a breach notification rule seemingly focused on a narrow set of applications...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week released final amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to further protect the privacy of protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care....more
4/29/2024
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HITECH Act ,
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Patients ,
PHI ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues
Changes to guidance are unlikely to mitigate widespread concerns -
On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) revised its controversial guidance on how HIPAA applies...more
The long-anticipated final rule addressing substance use disorder (SUD) records at 42 C.F.R. Part 2, commonly referred to as Part 2, is here. The final rule is a joint undertaking by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more
2/21/2024
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CARES Act ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Consent Agreements ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement ,
Final Rules ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
OCR ,
Penalties ,
PHI ,
Risk Assessment ,
SAMHSA ,
Substance Abuse
In January, we wrote about how new comprehensive state consumer data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), apply to healthcare providers. At the time five states had enacted such laws:...more
Continued advancement in artificial intelligence offers great promise to improve health care. But AI feeds on tremendous amounts of data, and using protected health information (PHI) to develop or improve AI often involves...more
On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the My Health My Data Act (the "Act"), which will regulate the collection, use, and disclosure of "consumer health data" ("Consumer Health Data" or "CHD"). The...more
5/2/2023
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Data Protection ,
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Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Private Right of Action
Walking a middle path, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published proposed amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule on April 17, 2023, to further safeguard the privacy of reproductive health care information. This comes in...more
Digital healthcare platforms using third-party tracking pixels should be on alert in light of the recent post issued by the Federal Trade Commission's new Office of Technology and the FTC's latest enforcement actions against...more
HIPAA-covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of "small" breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered during calendar-year 2022 no...more
With 2023 underway, healthcare providers have a more complex patchwork of privacy laws than ever before to navigate. Five states have enacted general privacy laws: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. These...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin on December 1, 2022, clarifying that "regulated entities are not permitted to use tracking technologies in a manner that would...more
On June 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced new guidance on using remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services in compliance with...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced four enforcement resolutions at the end of March 2022, with issues ranging from the misuse of protected health information (PHI)...more
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/14/2022
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CEOs ,
CFOs ,
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Clinical Laboratories ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
COOs ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
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Fraud and Abuse ,
Government Investigations ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Nurses ,
PHI ,
Physicians ,
Risk Management ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Telehealth ,
Webinars
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/11/2022
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Healthcare Fraud ,
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PHI ,
Physicians ,
Risk Management ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Telehealth ,
Webinars
This year has started with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) renewed attention to its Health Breach Notification Rule (Breach Rule) and the publication of the Health Privacy resource page to help companies with their...more
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/10/2022
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Healthcare Fraud ,
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PHI ,
Physicians ,
Risk Management ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Telehealth ,
Webinars
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/9/2022
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Webinars
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a 45-day extension of the comment period for proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The deadline for submitting comments now has been pushed from...more
March 1, 2021, is the due date for HIPAA-covered entities to notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) about "small" breaches of unsecured protected health information discovered...more
On January 21, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published proposed changes to the privacy rule (Privacy Rule) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This Notice of Proposed...more