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The growth of private equity and other financial sponsor investments in the health care industry has led many states across the country to adopt expansive oversight authority over health care transactions. With the enactment...more
In late 2020, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury (the Departments) released Transparency in Coverage (TiC) rules that put several new compliance burdens on group health plan sponsors. The next...more
Enforcement of one of the Transparency in Coverage Final Rules (“TiC Rules”) begins on July 1, 2022. The rule requires plans and issuers to make machine-readable files publicly available that will disclose in-network rates...more
The old adage “you can’t get where you’re going unless you know where you are” has never seemed more true than when applied to the current mélange of healthcare transparency guidance. Fortunately, a fading relic from...more
By letter dated April 13, 2021 (Letter), the Democrat and Republican leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Health, wrote United States Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier...more
On December 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its opinion in American Hospital Association v. Azar (the Opinion) upholding the Hospital Transparency Regulation (the Rule) issued...more
On October 29, 2020, the US Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (collectively, the Departments) issued the Transparency in Coverage final rule (the Rule), along with a fact sheet, setting forth...more
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more
On October 29, 2020 the United States Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (the Departments) issued a final rule entitled Transparency in Coverage (the Rule). The Rule continues on the Trump...more
On June 23, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a challenge to a federal rule requiring hospitals to disclose prices they privately negotiated with insurers....more
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued additional guidance today, March 25, 2020, regarding disclosures of protected health information (PHI) to law enforcement, paramedics,...more
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
A LOOK BACK... A LOOK AHEAD - While the uncertainty associated with legislative efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) dominated most of the headlines for the healthcare industry last year,...more
As we previously discussed in Medical Marijuana 103: Patient and Practitioner Regulations in New York State, practitioners in New York must be registered with the New York State Department of Health (“DOH”) in order to...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced another large HIPAA-related settlement last week with Memorial Hermann Health System (Memorial Hermann), the largest not-for-profit...more
During the week of April 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced two significant settlements with a large New York City hospital and a North Carolina orthopaedic...more
Charged with enforcing HIPAA and chided along by Congress to do a more proactive enforcement job, the Office of Civil Rights at HHS has entered into its 13th Corrective Action Plan for a covered entity....more
The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced a $275,000 settlement with Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) on the heels of an investigation triggered by a Los Angeles Times article indicating that senior...more