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Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | April 2024 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - February 22nd - 23rd, Anchorage, AK

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? SCCE & HCCA’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences bring compliance practitioners from all disciplines together for convenient, local compliance education....more

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[Event] Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - February 22nd - 23rd, Anchorage, AK

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? SCCE & HCCA’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences bring compliance practitioners from all disciplines together for convenient, local compliance education....more

Epstein Becker & Green

Dr. Jack of All Trades? OCR’s New Telehealth Guidance Suggests High Expectations on Providers

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On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), which is tasked with enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), issued two new...more

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10 Things to Know About Telehealth Compliance

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Providing care via electronic communication when patients and providers are in separate locations, known as telemedicine or telehealth, has been possible for decades. The exigent circumstances sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic...more

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Telehealth HIPAA Compliance Flexibilities Extended as the Public Health Emergency Ends

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During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), many federal telehealth rules were made flexible to accommodate the need for continued access to healthcare, including prescribing controlled substances without an in-person...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

End of the Public Health Emergency Marks End of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth Practices

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) in the United States came to an end on May 11, 2023. Simultaneously, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that its enforcement...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Means the Beginning of the End for HIPAA Privacy and Security Enforcement...

The Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act during the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

HIPAA Compliance Alert: OCR Anticipates the End of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth Use

A popular saying is that it takes 21 days to form a habit and about 66 days on average for a behavior to become automatic. If that is correct, the three-year period of unprecedented waivers and flexibilities in the provision...more

Clark Hill PLC

How Will the End of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Affect Covered Entities When the Public Health Emergency Expires on May 11?

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On Jan. 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11, 2023. Thereafter on April 11, 2023, the...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

All Good Things Must Come to an End: The Expiration of OCR’s Enforcement Discretion

On April 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed that four notifications of enforcement discretion regarding enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach...more

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

Back to Business: Adapting to the Expiration of 4 HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Waivers

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health emergency (PHE), the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued four Notifications of Enforcement Discretion (referred to as...more

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

COVID HIPAA Flexibilities to Expire

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has announced that several notifications of enforcement discretion issued during the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

OCR Reminder: Pandemic-Era HIPAA Flexibilities Will End May 2023

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On April 11, 2023 – one month in advance of the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023 – the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed that various Notifications of Enforcement Discretion...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

OCR Reminder: Pandemic-Era HIPAA Flexibilities Will End May 11, 2023

On April 11, 2023 – one month in advance of the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023 – the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed that various Notifications of Enforcement Discretion...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

HHS Office for Civil Rights Announces the Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency HIPAA Enforcement Discretion

Like many regulatory standards, enforcement of HIPAA was relaxed as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response. With the end of the public health emergency declaration on May 11, 2023, the broad relaxed HIPAA enforcement also...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Full HIPAA Enforcement to Resume as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends

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On April 11, 2023, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its plan for termination of the existing notifications of enforcement discretion related to the expiration of the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - April 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

It’s the End of the PHE as We Know It

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The Biden Administration announced that the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) will expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. As we draw closer to the expiration date of the PHE, do you feel fine about your...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Back to the Future for Telehealth: Refocusing on Security and Quality

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Telehealth has been around for decades, but restrictive reimbursement rules kept it out of widespread use for many treatment needs. Then along came the COVID-19 pandemic and everything changed rapidly. Suddenly, due to the...more

Hogan Lovells

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

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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

King & Spalding

HHS to End Telehealth HIPAA Flexibilities Upon PHE Expiration

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On June 13, 2022, HHS OCR issued guidance on how covered health care providers and health plans can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services when conducted in a manner consistent with...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

OCR Releases Guidance on HIPAA Compliance When Providing Audio-Only Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently released new guidance (the “Guidance”) to help ensure that individuals may continue to benefit from audio-only telehealth...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Issues HIPAA Guidance to Support Audio-Only Telehealth Services

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued new guidance (Guidance) on the use of remote communication technologies to deliver audio-only telehealth in accordance with...more

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HHS Issues Guidance on Provider Use of Audio-Only Telehealth

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On June 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance to explain how audio-only telehealth can comply with HIPAA, while also emphasizing that this mode of telehealth services can expand healthcare...more

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