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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

HHS Proposes Major Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Overview - On December 10th, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced significant proposed changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

Epstein Becker & Green

HHS Addresses Federal Court Invalidation of Certain Provisions of the HIPAA rule Relating to the Third-Party Requests for Patient...

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On January 28, 2020, the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) addressed a federal court’s January 23rd invalidation of certain provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

OCR Comments on Recent Ciox Case Vacating Certain Omnibus Rule Regulations and Guidance Relating to Fees for Providing Patient...

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an Important Notice Regarding Individuals’ Right of Access to Health Records through its email list serve on January 29, 2020.  In the Notice, OCR addressed the recent memorandum...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Changes on the Horizon for Charging Fees for Medical Records? Pending Ciox Litigation Raises the Question

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

Dickinson Wright

Restrictions on Fees Permitted Under HIPAA for Copies of Medical Records

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When health care providers provide copies of medical records to an individual patient or to third parties at the direction of that individual patient, they are permitted under HIPAA to recover “a reasonable, cost-based fee.”...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Are Attorneys Entitled to “HIPAA Rate”?

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

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

News from the Health Law Gurus™

Pa. Supreme Court Weighs in on Medical Record Charges — In Wayne M. Chiurazzi Law v. MRO, Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, writing for the majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, interpreted the Medical Records...more

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New Health Care Reform Fees—Will You Be Required to Pay?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established two fees to be paid by insurers and self-insured plans: (1) the Transitional Reinsurance Program (TRP) fee to raise revenue for health insurance issuers that cover...more

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