Web-based Tracking Technology and AI: HIPAA Compliance Issues for Health Care Practices
Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations
Podcast: Discussing Information Blocking with Eddie Williams
Expanded Information Block Rules Go into Effect
HIPPA: Privacy & Security and Potential Rule Changes
Compliance Perspectives: Privacy Investigations in a Virtual World
Tech Podcast: Interview With Innovative Health Care Tech Company Rymedi
Effectively Marketing Your Medical and Dental Practice While Staying Legally Compliant
Compliance Perspectives: The Ethics of Data
Compliance Perspective: What's New in Healthcare Privacy
Protecting Patient Medical Records
Exploring Digitization of Health and Medical Data and Records Part One
Given its role as a critical source of health care coverage for low-income individuals in the United States, including 13 million women of reproductive age, Medicaid is the primary source of family planning coverage in the...more
To protect patients seeking addiction treatment, the federal government passed strict regulations limiting the disclosure of substance abuse patient records. Substance abuse treatment programs must not only comply with the...more
Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 4 (April 2021) - A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of...more
Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 2 (February 2021) - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident...more
Compliance Today (May 2020) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in a March 9, 2020, news release that it had “finalized two transformative rules that will give patients unprecedented safe,...more
Telehealth Remote Communication Technology - On March 17, 2020, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will suspend enforcement activities and waive...more
On March 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two major regulations that will give patients additional access to their health data, while also addressing security of that information. Health...more
Medical providers are sometimes faced with the difficult scenario of a minor (under 18 years of age) requesting medical or mental health treatment without a parent's or legal guardian's consent. This situation often arises in...more
On February 11, 2019, CMS issued a proposed rule, to improve access to electronic health information (the Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule results from the 21st Century Cures Act (the Cures Act), in which CMS and the Office...more
Standard forms for the authorization of the release of medical information in Ohio have been developed by the Department of Medicaid....more
Contract Review Tips for Long-Term Care Facilities - A long-term care facility can execute contracts with many different vendors including food product and service vendors, laundry and linen providers, IT companies, and...more
Texting by physicians and other health care providers has long been a hot topic due to the privacy and security considerations involved, although HIPAA and state laws have generally been at the center of this discussion....more
On January 3, 2018, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued a final rule to revise 42 CFR Part 2, the federal regulations governing confidentiality of certain substance abuse patients'...more
Special Masters in Health Care Antitrust Merger Cases: Resolving the Conflicting Interests - One of the most challenging aspects of antitrust cases in the health care field is the rich mixture of public interest...more
Section 1332 Waivers: Will We See More State Innovation? - Editor's Note: In a new essay for the National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM), summarized below, Manatt Health examines Section 1332 waivers and the...more
The Vulnerability of Healthcare Information - According to a report the Brookings Institute issued in May 2016, 23% of all data breaches occur in the healthcare industry. Nearly 90% of healthcare organizations had some...more
It has been over three years since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its proposed rule and guidance on the development and implementation of Accountable Care Organizations. About four million...more