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OCR Loses Staff, Faces Move to New ‘Enforcement’ Office; Will HIPAA Focus, Independence Suffer?

Today, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of the Office of Inspector General and Office of General Counsel, one of just a dozen or so agencies reporting directly to the secretary....more

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Right To Know - April 2025, Vol. 28

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Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Ohio Transparency Pricing Rules for Hospitals Comes with Limits to Targeted Advertising

Starting April 3, Ohio hospitals will have to navigate new requirements under House Bill 173. This law mandates greater transparency in healthcare pricing. It also includes rules for selling or targeted advertising related to...more

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HHS Proposal To Strengthen HIPAA Security Rule

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) adopted a new proposal to strengthen the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security standards...more

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OCR Issues "Dear Colleagues" Letter Regarding AI in Medicine

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On May 6, 2024, OCR published the final rule interpreting and implementing Section 1557 at 45 C.F.R. § 92 (the Final Rule). The Final Rule regulates the use of patient care decision support tools, including AI algorithms for...more

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Compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Healthcare Privacy

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On April 22, 2024, the Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Final Rule. The final rule limits the sharing of protected health...more

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Recent Developments in Health Care Cybersecurity and Oversight: 2024 Wrap Up and 2025 Outlook

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As Cyberattacks targeting the health care sector have continued to intensify over the past year, including ransomware attacks that have resulted in major data breaches impacting health care organizations, the protection of...more

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OCR Confirms That the 2024 Title IX Regulations Are Vacated

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On January 9, 2025, a federal district court in Kentucky ruled that the 2024 Title IX Regulations “are invalid and must be set aside.” Despite some ambiguity in the text of the decision, we concluded that the ruling likely...more

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New Artificial Intelligence (AI) Regulations and Potential Fiduciary Implications

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Fiduciaries should be aware of recent developments involving AI, including emerging and recent state law changes, increased state and federal government interest in regulating AI, and the role of AI in ERISA litigation. While...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York Adopts Comprehensive Hospital Cybersecurity Requirements

Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations are on the rise, with the number of affected individuals nearly tripling between 2022 and 2024, according to data compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for...more

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HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Measures to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Health Care Under HIPAA

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed significant modifications to the HIPAA Security Rule and the HITECH Act in an attempt to strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

A Flurry of Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity Regulatory Developments in 2024

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2024 was a record year for cyberattacks in the healthcare sector. According to the Breach Portal maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), to date this year, there...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Recognized Security Practices ‘Saved’ Covered Entity $60K of $300K Fine, But Which Ones Remain a Mystery

Covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) may receive a “discount” for having recognized security practices (RSPs) in place when the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) calculates financial penalties for Security...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2024

Change Healthcare Inc. has amended its initial breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to state that 100 million individuals were impacted by its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. However, as of Oct. 24,...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Action Required for HIPAA Covered Entities Regarding Reproductive Health Care Compliance

On April 22, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Final Rule titled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (Final Rule)....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

2nd Settlement Triggered by 2017 Ransomware Attack Costs WA Practice $100K; ‘Not a Breach’

Let’s review for a moment. It’s not a HIPAA violation to be a victim of ransomware. It’s not a HIPAA violation to pay a ransom. It’s up to the covered entity (CE) to determine if a security or privacy incident is a...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Compliance Deadlines for New Section 1557 Nondiscrimination Rules Approaching, Includes Application to Medicare Part B Recipients

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In April 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized revised regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The new, final Section 1557 regulations (2024...more

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Shortly After its Online Tracking Technologies Bulletin is Declared Unlawful, HHS-OCR Stands Down, Withdraws Appeal

On August 29, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS-OCR”) withdrew its appeal of an order by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas’...more

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ATIXA's Position Statement on the Effect of the 2024 Title IX Regulatory Injunctions

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ATIXA issues this position statement to advise members that we discourage institutions covered by the various injunctions from voluntarily implementing the 2024 Regulations on August 1, 2024....more

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The Potential Impact of SCOTUS' Chevron Decision on Privacy Regulations

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Given the inability of the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law (such as the proposed and likely dead-on-arrival APRA), the United States continues to be left with a patchwork of sector-specific laws and a...more

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Federal Court Invalidates Key Part of HHS OCR Bulletin Regarding Application of HIPAA to Online Tracking Technologies

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In a consequential decision for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-regulated entities, on June 20, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled in American Hospital Association...more

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Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability

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For the first time in nearly 50 years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has finalized revisions to regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘I Will Not Rest’; ‘I Am All In’: Remarkable Breach Hearing Sees Pledges by UHG CEO, Sen. Wyden

United Healthcare Group (UHG) CEO Andrew Witty was in a board meeting on Feb. 21 when officials interrupted with the news that Change Healthcare—a clearinghouse UHG subsidiary Optum had purchased for $1.3 billion in October...more

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HHS Updates Its Guidance on Online Tracking Technologies – Controversy Remains

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently updated its controversial, year-old guidance document on the use of online tracking technologies by healthcare providers and other...more

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New OCR Guidance on Tracking Technologies

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On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published updated guidance on the use of online tracking technologies by HIPAA covered entities and business...more

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