On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Bulletin revising its December 1, 2022 Guidance concerning the HIPAA obligations of covered entities and...more
On December 1, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided guidance on the intersection of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the use of...more
On April 28, 2022, in a joint letter written by the HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra, and CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, to the Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HHS requested an opinion...more
On April 6, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit public comments on the implementation of the “safe harbor” under the Health...more
On April 6, 2022, HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit public comment on the implementation of the newly-enacted “safe harbor” under the Health Insurance Portability and...more
On December 10, 2020, HRSA issued a final rule (the Final Rule) implementing the 340B Drug Pricing Program administrative dispute resolution (ADR) process–an overdue mandate from the Affordable Care Act. Under the Final...more
On May 22, 2020, HHS announced that it has begun distributing $4.9 billion in additional relief funds to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to assist SNFs in weathering significant expenses or lost revenue attributable to the...more
Over the last two months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published guidance regarding the enforcement of HIPAA and its privacy and security requirements in response to the COVID-19 public health...more
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On October 23, 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at HHS announced the imposition of a $2,154,000 civil monetary penalty against a Florida hospital system (Hospital System) for alleged violations of the HIPAA Security...more
On October 15, 2018, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a record $16 million settlement with Anthem, Inc., to settle allegations that Anthem violated certain HIPAA requirements prior to and following a 2015...more
On March 21, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that a hospital lacked standing to challenge a decision of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (the “PRRB”), since the hospital failed to...more
On January 30, 2017, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) withdrew its 340B Program Omnibus Guidelines (Guidelines) from regulatory review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). HRSA published the...more
On December 7, 2016, HHS OIG issued a “General Policy Statement Regarding Gifts of Nominal Value to Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries” (Policy Statement). In the Policy Statement, OIG announced that it is changing its...more