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Immigration Enforcement for Health Care Facilities

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The Trump Administration’s flurry of executive orders directing the implementation of immigration policy objectives to carry out the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” has many hospitals and other...more

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Compliance Deadlines Approaching for HIPAA Final Rule Supporting Reproductive Health Care Privacy

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Effective June 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS) issued a Final Rule modifying the HIPAA Privacy Rule to enhance reproductive health care privacy. This change follows the...more

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Key Considerations for Healthcare Providers Responding to Law Enforcement Requests

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Why is everyone talking about provider disclosures to law enforcement of late? The Senate Finance Committee authored a letter to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), outlining...more

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Should Healthcare Providers Give Law Enforcement Protected Health Information When Informally Requested? Congress Says No.

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For years, law enforcement has bypassed traditional means of securing evidence by informal requests for documents from witnesses of crimes. At some point, that practice bled over into informal requests for healthcare...more

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HIPAA and Subpoenas, Orders, and Administrative Demands

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The HIPAA privacy rules (45 CFR § 164.501 et seq.) generally prohibit healthcare providers and their business associates from disclosing protected health information in response to subpoenas and other government demands...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] Managing the Disclosure of PHI to Law Enforcement during Crisis Encounters - September 25th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CT

Learning objectives - Becoming familiar with the HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 restrictions to sharing PHI with law enforcement when responding to a crisis - A review of the permissible disclosures of PHI to law enforcement...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

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Office of Civil Rights Releases Patient Privacy Guidance in the Wake of Dobbs Decision

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Patient privacy concerns are at an all-time high following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Following their statements affirming that abortion constitutes basic and essential health...more

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Office for Civil Rights Provides HIPAA Privacy Rule on Disclosures of Information Relating to Reproductive Healthcare

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On June 29, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) issued guidance on when entities...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OCR: CEs May Offer COVID-19 Patient 'List' to First Responders

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 4 (April 2020) In new guidance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has authorized hospitals and other covered entities (CEs) that may be faced with demands from first responders and law...more

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HIPAA: Responding to Law Enforcement and Administrative Requests and Demands Part I

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") Privacy Rule attempts to strike a balance between the protection of a patient's privacy and the performance of important law enforcement functions. This...more

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