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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Good Faith

Holland & Hart - Health Law Blog

New Guidance on Self-Pay Patients Under No Surprise Billing Rules

HHS has issued helpful FAQs that answer common questions concerning the No Surprise Billing Rules and self-pay patients, available here. The FAQs confirm the following: Providers and facilities are not required to...more

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The Arizona Supreme Court Joins Other States in Ruling that HIPAA Can Be Used to Establish the Standard of Care in a Negligent...

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On March 8, 2021, the Arizona Supreme Court held in Shepherd v. Costco1 that the plaintiff, Greg Shepherd, was permitted to bring a negligence claim for wrongful disclosure of medical information and that the Health Insurance...more

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law

Notable 2020 Connecticut Decisions Affecting Health Care

Plaintiff Cannot Cure Defective Malpractice Opinion Letter with an Affidavit Connecticut law requires that a plaintiff in a medical malpractice action demonstrate the existence of his or her good faith by obtaining a written...more

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Proposed HIPAA Regulations Would Improve Individual Patient Care and Expand Patient Rights

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Nearly two years after soliciting public suggestions to modify HIPAA rules to improve the coordination of care, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a Proposed Rule which changes parts of the Privacy Rule...more

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State Data Breach Notification Laws - September 2020

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While most state data breach notification statutes contain similar components, there are important differences, meaning a one-size-fits-all approach to notification will not suffice. What’s more, as data breaches continue to...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

What Healthcare Providers Need to Know About the Information Blocking Rules

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On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published final rules to implement the information blocking prohibitions of the 21st Century Cures Act (Information Blocking Rules). The Information...more

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Relaxed HIPAA Restrictions For Providers Using Telehealth

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The COVID-19 outbreak has led OCR to announce that it will exercise enforcement discretion to not impose penalties for HIPAA violations against healthcare providers treating patients through some commonly used social media...more

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HIPAA Enforcement Discretion During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

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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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OCR Will Not Impose Penalties for Noncompliance with HIPAA Regulations Under Good Faith Provision of Telehealth During COVID-19...

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a notice that it will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against...more

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Healthcare Employers, Beware: HIPAA Whistleblowers Could Be (Legally) Leaking Protected Health Information

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In this day and age, healthcare employers are quite familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects the disclosure of patients’ confidential health information. After all, in the...more

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