News & Analysis as of

Proposed Rules Public Comment Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Maynard Nexsen

HHS Abandons Public Comment Practices Under the Richardson Waiver

Maynard Nexsen on

On March 3, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., officially announced the rescission of the Richardson Waiver, a policy in place since 1971 that required public...more

Paul Hastings LLP

HHS OCR Releases Proposed Updates to HIPAA Security Rule

Paul Hastings LLP on

On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Security Standards for the Protection of...more

Fisher Phillips

PEOs Need to Prepare for Increased Cybersecurity Requirements Thanks to Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Revisions

Fisher Phillips on

With the HIPAA Security Rule set to undergo a massive overhaul to boost cybersecurity protections, PEOs need to take note. After all, as stewards of worksite employee and client company data – and as sponsors of group health...more

Fisher Phillips

Proposed Updates to HIPAA Security Rule Would Require Entities to Adopt Enhanced Cybersecurity Measures

Fisher Phillips on

The HIPAA Security Rule may soon undergo a big overhaul that would better defend healthcare data from cybersecurity threats – and require much more from covered entities when it comes to establishing and maintaining defenses....more

Quarles & Brady LLP

DEA Publishes Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III

Quarles & Brady LLP on

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking to reschedule marijuana from schedule I of the Federal Controlled Substance Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. As a reminder,...more

Morgan Lewis - As Prescribed

From Prohibition to Prescription: DEA Issues Proposed Rule to Reschedule Marijuana

On May 21, 2024, The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register (FR) to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)....more

Vicente LLP

Cannabis Rescheduling: The DEA's Proposed Rule and the Supporting OLC Opinion

Vicente LLP on

On May 21, 2024, the DEA finally published its proposed rule related to rescheduling marijuana and commenced a 60-day period where the public can submit comments regarding DEA's proposed move to reschedule marijuana (the...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Proposed Rules to Combat Health Information Blocking

Troutman Pepper Locke on

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

McGuireWoods LLP

HHS Proposes Updates to 20-Year-Old Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct

McGuireWoods LLP on

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Research Integrity (ORI) released a notice of proposed rulemaking to update the 2005 Public Health Service (PHS) Policies on Research Misconduct. HHS seeks...more

Hogan Lovells

HHS highlights significance of new healthcare technologies in series of regulatory actions

Hogan Lovells on

Recent U.S. Department of Health Human Services (HHS) regulatory actions emphasize the role emerging technologies play in the provision of healthcare, particularly as clinical innovations proliferate in response to the...more

ArentFox Schiff

Biden’s HHS Seeks to Undo Trump Era Regulations

ArentFox Schiff on

Proposed Rules Seek to Repeal Multiple Trump Era Regulations That Received Prior Industry Scrutiny - The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – still within its first full year under the direction...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

New HHS Rules Would Simplify Emergency Data Sharing Procedures

Womble Bond Dickinson on

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are proposing modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to ease information sharing in emergencies. Some of the modifications being discussed would provide patients...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

HHS Proposes to Rein In Its Use of Regulatory “Dark Matter”

- HHS is overhauling its process for developing interpretive guidance documents under a new Proposed Rule. - HHS proposes to no longer use “guidance documents” to establish broadly applicable legal obligations on the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New Proposed Relief for Grandfathered Group Health Plans

The Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Treasury have issued a proposed rule for grandfathered group health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposed rule provides greater...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Health Plan Transparency Rule: Comment Period Ends This Week

In November 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, along with the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Labor, (collectively, the Departments) released a proposed rule requiring group health...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

HHS Proposes Sweeping Changes to AKS and Stark Law, Part 6: Proposed Changes to the AKS Related to Beneficiary Inducement

As reported previously, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published two proposed rules that seek to implement wholesale changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and...more

King & Spalding

CMS Finalizes Rule to Require Hospitals to Disclose Negotiated Rates

King & Spalding on

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Trump Administration as a whole, has placed a particular focus on the promotion of price transparency as a tool to control the costs of healthcare. In June, the...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Employers May Need to Provide Cost Data Under Proposed ACA Rules

Employer-sponsored health plans and health insurers may be required to post online - and to provide participants upon request - a range of pricing and cost-sharing information beginning in 2021. Proposed Affordable Care...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Trump Administration Proposes Transparency Rule for Group Health Plans and Insurers

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on

On November 15, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), unveiled a proposed rule (scheduled to be published on November...more

Epstein Becker & Green

HHS’s Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care – Part 3: CMS Proposes Expansive Set of Changes to Stark Regulations

Epstein Becker & Green on

This Client Alert serves as the third in a three-part series in which we describe and analyze the rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as part...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

CMS and the OIG Issue Far-Reaching Proposed Rules to the Federal Stark and Anti-Kickback Laws

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on

In a coordinated effort, CMS and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published proposed rules to modernize regulations implementing the federal physician-self referral law, commonly referred to as the “Stark Law” (Stark),...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Stark Law Proposed Change Affects Group Practice Special Rules for Productivity Bonuses, Profit Shares

McDermott Will & Emery on

On October 9, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published proposed changes to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law). Physician practices are subject to...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Trump Administration’s ‘Regulatory Sprint’ Includes Revisions to Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute

Womble Bond Dickinson on

On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released two proposed rules: Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations and Fraud and Abuse; Revisions to Safe Harbors under the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CMS Proposes Changes to Physician Self-Referral Regulations to Promote Value-Based Health Care

• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a long-awaited proposal to reform the Physician Self-Referral Law’s (Stark Law’s) regulatory exceptions and to provide updated guidance for physicians and...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

CMS Proposes Sweeping Revisions to the Stark Law

"CMS Proposes Sweeping Revisions to the Stark Law" is Part I of a two-part series discussing the US Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) recent proposed rules revising the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute as...more

54 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 3

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide