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The finalization of information blocking exceptions were announced just in the "St. Nick" of time by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP), formerly known as...more
Recently, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) announced the...more
On October 6, 2023, the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) released brand new “General Compliance Program Guidance” to assist health care providers, entities, and other...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just unveiled a proposed rule designed to penalize health care providers engaging in information blocking. Information blocking is a practice where health care...more
On September 1, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) will begin enforcing information blocking penalties against certain health care information technology (IT) actors as published...more
A final rule published on July 3, 2023, empowers the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to impose civil monetary penalties (CMP) of up to $1 million for unlawful acts of...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced its final rule (the Enforcement Rule) implementing the information blocking penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act...more
On June 27, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released its final rule (“Final Rule”) implementing penalties for information blocking....more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently posted the final rule establishing civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for information blocking (IB Enforcement Rule). The Rule...more
Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 7 (July 2023) In two public talks this spring, Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), said completing the 2021 proposed regulation extensively...more
On June 27th, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted its final rule (Final Rule), which amends the OIG’s civil monetary penalty (CMP) regulations to implement the...more
General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more
Patients may think they own their medical records. While patients certainly have the right to access and, in many cases, control how their health information is used and disclosed, medical records ownership can be murky....more
Recently, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued a new series of helpful FAQs related to its information blocking regulations. The new FAQs cover a wide range of topics, including the content and...more
Issue a final rule revising the privacy regulation and write guidance on the information blocking rule. Formalize the fledgling audit program required by Congress more than 10 years ago. Engage with providers and other...more
Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule became effective in 2003, it generally required covered entities to provide patients timely access to their medical records. Of...more
Since last year, the Husch Blackwell privacy attorneys have been working with various healthcare providers—from hospitals to hospices, to independent physician groups—to comply with the Information Blocking rule (the Rule)...more
Recent regulatory and enforcement developments in the area of access to patient information create significant new risks for radiology providers. In particular, imaging providers should pay close attention to these...more
You may recall on December 10, 2020 we wrote about the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announcement of a proposed rule that would revise the Health Insurance Portability and...more
On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a proposed rule that would revise the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). ...more
On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a proposed rule that would revise the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)...more
In Part 1 of our information blocking series, we introduced readers to the fundamentals of information blocking, including definitional terms, information blocking exceptions, and compliance deadlines and penalties for health...more
Covered entities beware: a timing pitfall lurks within the recently adopted rules prohibiting information blocking. We have posted about OCR’s “Right to Access Initiative” and numerous enforcement actions taken to make sure...more
As the November 2 compliance date quickly approaches, healthcare providers are finding that tackling the new "information blocking" regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires substantial...more
Healthcare providers focusing on COVID-19 may have missed the final Interoperability and Information Blocking Rule that was published May 1, 2020 and takes effect November 3, 2020. (45 C.F.R. Part 171). The Rule implements...more