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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

New Guidance on Family Planning in Medicaid: Takeaways for States, Plans, and Providers

For states, managed care organizations, and providers—who all play a vital role in ensuring access to family planning services and supplies for the nearly 20 million women ages 18-44 enrolled in Medicaid1—the CIB reiterates...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

2024 Pre-Election Analysis: Health Care Issues

In recent elections, health care has been one of the most hot-button issues with consequences for millions of Americans, and this election is no exception. The next administration and the 119th Congress have the potential to...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New Reproductive Health Care Privacy Final Rule: Key Compliance Steps and Dates

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state abortion bans, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Employers Must Keep Reproductive Health Information About Their Plan Participants Private Under New HIPAA Privacy Rule

Imagine you are a corporate Human Resources/Total Rewards leader who receives a request from a state’s law enforcement agency for health plan records about a plan participant’s abortions or other reproductive health care. How...more

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HIPAA Privacy Rules Get a Post-Dobbs Refresh on Reproductive Health Care

Employers will soon see the national debate about abortion popping up in some unexpected places: the HIPAA privacy policies and procedures and notices of privacy practices they use for their health benefit plans....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Employers Consider Post-Dobbs Playbook in Dealing with Alabama Ruling on IVF Treatments

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that cryogenically frozen embryos are children and are protected from destruction under state law. This is the latest in a series of post-Dobbs judicial rulings...more

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FY 2025 Executive Budget Women’s Health Highlights

Earlier this week, Governor Kathy Hochul released her Executive Budget proposal totaling $233 billion for State Fiscal Year 2025. The budget proposes several initiatives targeted at improving access to, quality of, and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Abortion Access and Coverage Survey Results: Key Findings

Editor’s Note: Manatt Health conducted a survey of all 34 states in which abortion is legal as of November 7, 2023, broadly classifying them based on their Medicaid coverage policies, private or exchange-based insurance...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] State Telehealth Policy Trends: 2023 Year in Review - December 5th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

Three years following the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states across the United States continue to enact permanent changes to telehealth laws that impact how physicians and other providers can deliver...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Religious Institutions: Update June 2023

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In Ratliff v. Wycliffe Assoc., Inc., No. 6:22-cv-1185-PGB-RMN, 2023 WL 3688082 (M.D. Fla. May 26, 2023), the plaintiff, a software developer, sued the defendant, a Bible translation ministry, for sex discrimination under...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

Burr & Forman

Hot Topics in Health Care May 2023

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Proposed Protections for Patient Data Related to Reproductive Care - On April 12, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule to strengthen HIPAA...more

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The New Jersey Commissioner of Banking & Insurance Proposes Rules to Adopt the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act

On January 13, 2022, the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act, P.L. 2021, c. 375 (Act), was enacted to codify the constitutional right to freedom of reproductive choice, including the rights to access contraception, to...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 28, 2023

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Congress was in session, and it was a busy healthcare week at the committee level, with six hearings focused specifically on health issues. On the House floor, Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act—a bill that raises...more

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Employee Benefits Post-Dobbs: Considerations for Year-End Planning

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Much has been written about the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. For employers in particular, the Dobbs decision raised a number of questions about employee...more

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[Webinar] What Will the Midterm Elections Mean for Health Care? - September 28th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Americans are strongly focused on the upcoming midterm elections. An NBC News survey shows that 68% of Republicans and 66% of Democrats are expressing high interest in the midterms. Which issues are most critical to voters...more

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Hot Topics in Health Care – September 2022

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Physicians and Pharmacists Concerned Over Post Dobbs State Laws Limiting Independent Medical Judgment - On September 8, 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), American...more

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Reproductive Rights: FAQS for People Seeking Abortions in New Jersey

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SAFE INTERNET SEARCHES AND PHONE CALLS- If I’m researching abortion online, are there ways to keep my searches private? Before you read these FAQs, you might want to educate yourself on how to keep your data more private....more

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Fall Congressional Forecast: Eye on Federal Funding and Health Care

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Congress faces a crowded agenda this fall comprised of must-pass policy initiatives and potential political messaging opportunities in the lead up to the November midterm elections. With control of both chambers at stake, the...more

Law Matters

Two Months Post-'Dobbs' What Healthcare Providers Need to Know — Q&A with Joan W. Feldman

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Two months post-Dobbs, Shipman & Goodwin's Joan W. Feldman shares her insights and her predictions for the future of reproductive health law issues....more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Employers' Medical Group Plans After Dobbs

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In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that pre-viability abortions were protected under a Constitutional right to privacy emanating from the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Roe...more

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Abortion as an Employee Health Benefit – How to Protect against Potential Liability Post-Dobbs

Amazon. Bank of America. Citigroup. Dick’s Sporting Goods. JP Morgan. Kroger. Meta. Microsoft. Procter & Gamble. Target. Walt Disney Company. These are just a few of what is a growing list of companies that have offered to...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Weighing Employers’ Strategies for Employee Benefits in a Post Roe World

As is now well known both in and outside of the legal community, the Supreme Court of the United States recently decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Court analyzed a Mississippi law that restricted...more

Dechert LLP

Plan for a Ban: How the Overruling of Roe v. Wade May Impact Employee Healthcare Plans

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The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, overruled Roe v. Wade, the seminal case in which the Court had recognized the existence of the constitutional right for individuals to obtain an abortion. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Post-Dobbs Benefit Options and Considerations

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, thereby holding that the U.S. Constitution does not expressly or implicitly protect...more

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