Healthcare Document Retention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Business Better Podcast Episode: Cyber Adviser – Your Data, My Headache: Consumer Health Data Laws
Conducting Healthcare Compliance Investigations
The FTC's Health Privacy Enforcement Actions
Web-based Tracking Technology and AI: HIPAA Compliance Issues for Health Care Practices
Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations
Podcast: Keeping an Eye on HIPAA Trends with Shannon Hartsfield
Podcast - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and How to Comply with HIPAA & State Privacy Laws
Meeting Cancer Reporting Requirements
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
Business Associates Here, There, and Everywhere: When Does Your Service Provider Really Need to Sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement?
Patient Data and Privacy
Changing Telehealth Rules
De-Identification Under HIPAA and GDPR
Data Security Standards Audits
Compliance Programs and Doubt Mining
Employment Law Now VI-121 - Top 5 Fall Things You Need To Know
An Inside Look as a Juror - FCRA Focus Podcast
Expanded Information Block Rules Go into Effect
On April 22, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Final Rule prohibiting the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to lawful...more
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has abandoned its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling overturning OCR’s guidance prohibiting covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) from using the web-tracking technologies...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently introduced changes to the privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA Privacy Rule), aimed at bolstering the privacy of...more
This is not a drill: the Texas Attorney General is coming for HIPAA. On September 4, 2024, the State of Texas sued the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to enjoin portions of HIPAA regulations,...more
On September 4, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), challenging two key Health Insurance Portability and...more
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint in federal district court against HHS and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) challenging a recently issued rule strengthening protection of protected health...more
Earlier this year, the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“HHS”) published a final “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy” that imposes new restrictions on disclosure of...more
Big Picture - Last week, Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the new HHS final rule amending HIPAA regulations to strengthen protections for reproductive health...more
On August 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) withdrew its appeal of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s (Court) June 20, 2024 decision in...more
Last year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas, requesting that HHS be barred from enforcing a new...more
Last week, HHS filed a motion asking the Fifth Circuit’s permission to voluntarily dismiss its appeal of a District Court order directing HHS to rescind its guidance restricting hospitals’ ability to track online traffic to...more
On April 26, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (Final Rule). The Final Rule became effective June 25, 2024....more
On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued new regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) that impose new restrictions on the use and...more
Report on Research Compliance 21, no. 9 (September, 2024) - Based on their review of public data on ClinicalTrials.gov, a bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...more
On August 29, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) withdrew its appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more
Summer is ending and fall is rapidly approaching. For employee benefit professionals with calendar-year health and welfare benefit plans that means preparing for annual enrollment and year-end compliance requirements. This...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and thr Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published 89 FR 51238 (the Final Rule),...more
On August 19, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) filed a notice of appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more
The August Monthly Minute highlights new IRS guidance addressing student loan matching programs, HHS’s increases to civil monetary penalties and Form 5330 paper filing updates....more
Previously published in Healthcare News and Healthcare Michigan. On February 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized revisions to 42 CFR Part 2. Read on to learn more about Part 2, the changes,...more
On June 20, a federal district court in Texas ruled that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) exceeded its authority under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
The OIG, the nation’s leader in fighting fraud, waste and abuse of Medicare, Medicaid and other HHS programs, periodically publishes reports on how federal healthcare programs could improve....more
On July 19, Change Healthcare Ince. filed a breach report with HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. The organization’s breach report to OCR identifies just 500 individuals as...more
It has now become commonplace for Plaintiffs’ attorneys to bring claims alleging that routine marketing techniques, including the deployment of behavioral advertising cookies and pixels, constitute wiretaps in violation of...more
On August 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a civil monetary penalty of $115,200 against American Medical Response (“AMR”) based on a complaint that...more