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Purl v HHS: Resetting the Reproductive Health Privacy Landscape

Reproductive health privacy is once again in the legal spotlight with a recent federal district court decision that struck down nearly all of a recent rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)...more

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CMS Rescinds Prior Administration's EMTALA Guidance on Emergency Abortions

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded its 2022 guidance and accompanying letter that reinforced hospitals' obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide...more

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Reproductive Healthcare Privacy Rule Struck Down Nationwide by Texas Judge: What Providers and Employer-Sponsored Health Plans...

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A federal judge in Texas just tossed out Biden-era reproductive healthcare privacy protections, halting a 2024 final rule with nationwide effect. The rule, which largely took effect in December and created new HIPAA privacy...more

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Idaho’s Defense of Life Act and EMTALA: For Now, a Federal Court Permits an Idaho Health System to Stabilize Pregnant Patients...

An Idaho federal court has resolved the tension between that state’s restrictive abortion law and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) in favor of a hospital system’s obligation to stabilize pregnant...more

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Is a Civil Rights Lawsuit by Private Parties a Means to Enforce a Federal Free Choice of Medicaid Provider Provision? A Spending...

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CASE AT A GLANCE - In 2018, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) and one of its patients, Julie Edwards, sued the administrator of South Carolina’s Medicaid program to enforce the “free choice of Medicaid provider”...more

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Arizona’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Declared Unconstitutional

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On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge permanently blocked Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban and ruled that the former law is unconstitutional. The 15-week ban was passed by the Arizona...more

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Criminalizing Reproductive Care and Abortion Services through Telehealth

The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write:...more

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U.S. Supreme Court To Decide Whether Medicaid Recipients Have Right To Choose Provider in Ongoing Court Battle To Restrict Funding...

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear South Carolina’s challenge to the Fourth Circuit’s decision blocking South Carolina’s Medicaid program from ending its provider agreement with Planned Parenthood. The dispute arises from...more

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The New HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule: What You Need to Know

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Healthcare providers must comply with the new HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule (the “Rule”) by December 23, 2024. Here is what you need to know and do before then. Overview. In the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Women’s Health on the Ballot in November: What the Election Could Mean for Reproductive Care and Beyond

Over two years into the post-Dobbs era, women’s health is taking center stage in the presidential election. In Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court overturned protections relating to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. Since...more

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Providers Must Comply With Reproductive Health Amendment HIPAA Privacy Final Rule Soon

On April 22, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Final Rule prohibiting the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to lawful...more

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M+ Check-Up: September 6, 2024

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Congress Returns. The House and Senate will be back in session on September 9, 2024, with a joint focus on completing consideration of a continuing resolution (CR) to maintain government funding beyond the end of fiscal year...more

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Ohio Injunction Issued for Abortion Statutes At Odds With State Constitutional Reproductive Rights

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On August 23, 2024, an Ohio state court issued a preliminary injunction in Preterm-Cleveland et al. v. Dave Yost et al., No. 24-cv-02634, staying the enforcement of multiple Ohio civil and criminal abortion-related statutes....more

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Iowa Fetal Heartbeat Law to Go Into Effect on July 29, 2024

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Iowa’s fetal heartbeat law, House File 732, which was signed into law by Governor Kim Reynolds in 2023, will go into effect on Monday, July 29. The law has been temporarily enjoined from enforcement since last July, however a...more

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Kansas Supreme Court Reaffirms Fundamental Right to Abortion

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Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions striking down a series of state anti-abortion laws  passed by the Kansas Legislature. The first case challenged S.B. 95, a bill enacted by the Legislature in 2015...more

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Right to Reproductive Health Care Privacy

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HHS announced modifications last week to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule, that will strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health care information. The Final...more

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Client Alert: Key Takeaways from SCOTUS Arguments in Idaho EMTALA Abortion Cases

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Moyle v. United States, Case No. 23-726 and Idaho v. United States, Case No. 23-727. These cases asked the justices to consider whether the...more

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Employers Consider Post-Dobbs Playbook in Dealing with Alabama Ruling on IVF Treatments

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that cryogenically frozen embryos are children and are protected from destruction under state law. This is the latest in a series of post-Dobbs judicial rulings...more

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Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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In a defining moment for reproductive rights in America, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) marked a pivotal turning point. This ruling, revoking the constitutional right to...more

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Referrals for Out-of-State Abortions: New Idaho Decision

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The federal District Court of Idaho has issued a ruling that will help protect physicians and other healthcare providers who refer patients outside of Idaho for an abortion....more

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Podcast: Post-Dobbs - One Year Later - Diagnosing Health Care

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization one year ago overturned 50 years of legal precedent protecting the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, leaving the question of...more

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Hot Topics in Health Care May 2023

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Proposed Protections for Patient Data Related to Reproductive Care - On April 12, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule to strengthen HIPAA...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 21st Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice Claims - June 27th - 28th, Philadelphia, PA

Hosted by the American Conference Institute, the 21st Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice Claims returns in June with curated content that will ensure that you stay current on the evolving standards of care,...more

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Evolving Laws and Litigation Post–Dobbs: The State of Reproductive Rights as of May 2023

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It has been almost a year since the US Supreme Court held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that there was no constitutional right to abortion and returned the question of abortion to the states, resulting in a...more

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Access to Abortion Pill in Limbo: Navigating the Intricacies of Conflicting Federal Court Rulings in Texas and Washington State

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, has been curtailed following dueling federal court decisions in Texas and Washington. Just days after a Texas...more

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