HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Fontes Rainer on Progress and News at OCR
ERISA Blog | Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rules A Primer for Self-Insured Group Health Plans
Early Returns Podcast with Jan Baran - Josh Gerstein: SCOTUS, the Presidential Immunity Case Fallout, and the Dobbs Case Leak Investigation
(Podcast) California Employment News: SB848 – Protected Leave for Reproductive Loss
California Employment News: SB848 – Protected Leave for Reproductive Loss
Podcast: Post-Dobbs - One Year Later - Diagnosing Health Care
State AG Pulse | Vermont: Small Is Mighty
Reproductive Rights in the Post-Dobbs Era
Podcast: Post-Dobbs - Considerations for Clinical Trials and Research - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Post-Dobbs Access to Reproductive Health Care and Abortion-Inducing Drugs - Diagnosing Health Care
In the Boardroom With Resnick and Fuller - Episode 2
Podcast: Post-Dobbs - Navigating the Fast-Changing and Uncertain Legal Landscape - Diagnosing Health Care
Let's Talk About the Constitutional Aspects of the Dobbs Decision
Monica Enand, CEO at Zapproved Sits Down with EDRM's Mary Mack & Kaylee Walstad to Share What's Exciting About the Keynote Speakers at Zapproved's PREX Conference
#WorkforceWednesday: Enforcement Risk Post-Roe, 11th State Passes Paid Family and Medical Leave, FTC/NLRB Join Forces - Employment Law This Week®
Employee Benefits Post-Dobbs: What Kinds of Assistance Can Employers Now Offer in Reproductive Healthcare?
Reproductive Rights at a Crossroads
Season Two Trailer
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently introduced changes to the privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA Privacy Rule), aimed at bolstering the privacy of...more
This is not a drill: the Texas Attorney General is coming for HIPAA. On September 4, 2024, the State of Texas sued the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to enjoin portions of HIPAA regulations,...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint in federal district court against HHS and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) challenging a recently issued rule strengthening protection of protected health...more
Earlier this year, the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“HHS”) published a final “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy” that imposes new restrictions on disclosure of...more
Big Picture - Last week, Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the new HHS final rule amending HIPAA regulations to strengthen protections for reproductive health...more
On April 26, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (Final Rule). The Final Rule became effective June 25, 2024....more
On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued new regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) that impose new restrictions on the use and...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has had a seismic impact on the landscape of U.S. healthcare. Among other effects, it has created new friction between states. With stark...more
Summer is ending and fall is rapidly approaching. For employee benefit professionals with calendar-year health and welfare benefit plans that means preparing for annual enrollment and year-end compliance requirements. This...more
Melanie Fontes Rainer recently marked the completion of her second year leading the Office for Civil Rights at HHS. In this podcast she shared some of the accomplishments over this time as well as what the health care...more
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state abortion bans, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a...more
As discussed in our prior blog post, on April 26, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued final regulations (“Reproductive Health Care Rule”) under the Health...more
Earlier we discussed the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services final rules relating to reproductive health care information (the “Final Rules”). In our prior blog we discussed that...more
On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published Final Regulations under HIPAA’s Privacy Rule introducing greater protections for information related to...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule that modifies the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“the Privacy Rule”) under the Health Insurance...more
Earlier this year, federal agencies teamed up to issue two rules that will require healthcare providers to update certain policies related to the use and disclosure of health information and to update their Notice of Privacy...more
The Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule amending the HIPAA privacy rules (“2024 Privacy Rule”). The 2024 Privacy Rule limits the use or disclosure of an individual’s PHI in connection with reproductive...more
The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA Privacy Rules for reproductive health care information. The Final Rule...more
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The rules impose new restrictions on the use and...more
On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Idaho v. United States on procedural grounds and sent the case back to the Ninth Circuit. By doing so, the Supreme Court reinstated the preliminary injunction issued by the...more
Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top HIPAA regulated entities may now begin implementing the amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to provide additional protections for reproductive health care information...more
Over the course of the past few months, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), both of which are divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and...more
This year, the federal government has made significant changes to longstanding health care privacy rules, while state lawmakers continue to enact privacy restrictions on consumer health data. These reforms modify legal...more