On February 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a final rule that aims to align 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2) — which protects certain substance abuse disorder (SUD) records — with the Health Insurance...more
2/22/2024
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
HITECH Act ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Substance Abuse
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just unveiled a proposed rule designed to penalize health care providers engaging in information blocking. Information blocking is a practice where health care...more
11/10/2023
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Critical Access Hospitals ,
Data Management ,
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Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
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Information Blocking Rules ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Shared Savings Program ,
MIPS ,
OCR ,
OIG ,
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On September 1, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) will begin enforcing information blocking penalties against certain health care information technology (IT) actors as published...more
8/30/2023
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Health Technology ,
Healthcare ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Information Technology ,
OIG ,
ONC ,
Patient Access
On July 7th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Department of Treasury (collectively, the agencies) jointly issued a Request for Information (Request)...more
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) resulted in many changes to the health care system. One of the most dramatic involved the introduction of regulatory flexibilities that enabled the rapid expansion of telehealth....more
Why It Matters -
Businesses should begin to address these issues now so that when COVID-19 vaccines are ready for distribution, they will be too....more
12/16/2020
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Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
OSHA ,
Popular ,
Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations
Since April 2020, many health care providers have received payments from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) in the form of general or targeted distributions. Many providers have questions about receiving and using these...more
8/7/2020
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Relief Measures ,
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