On April 11, 2023, OCR announced that the Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and...more
"Sweeping changes" is how Leon Rodriquez, of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR), characterized the effect of the final omnibus Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)...more
Modifications to the rules require action by group health plan sponsors and their vendors, including revisions to policies and procedures and new privacy notices. On January 17, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S....more