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Federal Court Vacates Key Provisions of HIPAA Privacy Rule on Reproductive Healthcare

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On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a ruling in Purl v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, vacating most of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for...more

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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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Texas Court Overturns Biden Administration’s Expansion of Abortion Privacy

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On June 18, 2025, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the Rule). The...more

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Federal Court Vacates HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule

As anticipated, a Texas federal district court has vacated the HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule (the “Rule”) nationwide. (Memorandum Opinion and Order, Purl v. HHS, 2:24-CV-228-Z (N. Dist. Tex (Jun. 18, 2025), available here)....more

Stoel Rives - Health Law Insider®

Nationwide Impact: HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rule Vacated

On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas invalidated provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (2024 Rule) in the case of Purl v. United States Dep’t...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The State of Reproductive Healthcare Privacy

Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision (which overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision), the healthcare industry has continued to grapple with renewed concerns over patient privacy and...more

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Texas Court Strikes Down 2024 HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Rule

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A Texas federal court has vacated a 2024 HIPAA rule that created special protections for reproductive health care information. Our Health Care Group examines the ruling and its impact on health care providers and plan...more

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How a Texas Federal District Court Changed the HIPAA Reproductive Health Privacy Rule, But SCOTUS Decision May Say Not So Fast

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Explained in more detail below, under the recent vacatur of most of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the “Reproductive Health Rule”): • The broad prohibitions on disclosing protected...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Holds Medicaid’s Any-Qualified-Provider Provision Does Not Confer Enforceable Rights

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Medicaid Act’s any-qualified-provider provision does not confer individual rights enforceable under 42 U.S.C. §1983. This decision reverses the Fourth Circuit’s...more

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HIPAA Attestation Requirement Is No More

On June 18, 2025, in Purl v. U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated the 2024 amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule that enhanced certain privacy protections...more

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Court Vacates HIPAA Reproductive Information Privacy Regulations

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A federal district court has vacated a federal regulation under HIPAA that provided special restrictions on the disclosure of reproductive health information....more

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HIPAA Final Rule on Reproductive Health Care Privacy Struck Down

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In June 2024, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS) issued a Final Rule modifying the HIPAA Privacy Rule to enhance reproductive health care privacy affecting all HIPAA covered entities...more

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CMS Rescinds Post-Dobbs EMTALA Guidance, Raising New Questions for Emergency Departments

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I. Key Takeaways - Federal enforcement under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) may be changing after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinded guidance issued under the Biden...more

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HHS Rescinds 2022 EMTALA Guidance on State Law Preemption in Emergency Reproductive Healthcare

On May 29, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) rescinded its July 11, 2022 guidance (Ref. QSO-22-22-Hospitals) (the “2022 Guidance”) clarifying how the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1965...more

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Trump Administration Rescinds Emergency Abortion Guidance

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On June 3, 2025, the Trump administration announced (the Announcement) that it would no longer follow Biden-era guidance (the Guidance) that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions to pregnant women in emergency...more

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Trump Administration Rescinds Biden Administration's EMTALA Preemption Guidance

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On June 3, 2025, the Trump Administration announced that it rescinded the Biden Administration’s guidance issued on July 11, 2022. The Biden Administration’s guidance advises hospital providers that, under the federal...more

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Federal Court Vacates Portion of PWFA Final Rule Requiring Accommodation for Elective Abortions

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On May 21, 2025, Judge David C. Joseph of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a ruling vacating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final rule under the 2022 Pregnant Workers...more

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Second Circuit Reinstates New York Reproductive Health Bias Law's Notice Requirement in Employee Handbooks

On January 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a permanent injunction that barred the enforcement of a requirement under the New York Labor Law Section 203-e (the "Act") that New York State...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: Oral Arguments Focus on Statutory ‘Magic Words’

On April 2, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. At issue in Medina is § 1902(a)(23) of the Social Security Act (the Act),1 or the “free-choice-of-provider”...more

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Idaho Federal Judge Warns of Conflicts Between Restrictive Abortion Laws and EMTALA

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In a 60-page decision issued on March 20, 2025, Judge Lynn Winmill, a Federal District Judge for the District of Idaho, granted a preliminary injunction that enjoins Attorney General Raúl Labrador and his officers, employees,...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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Reproductive Health Under the Trump Administration So Far: What’s New and What’s Next

Over the past two months, the second Trump administration has shifted federal policies and priorities regarding abortion, in vitro fertilization (IVF), contraception, and other reproductive-health-related matters – and it is...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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Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Issued on Executive Order Limiting Gender-Affirming Care

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On March 4, 2025, a federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction to an executive order restricting access to gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of nineteen (the Executive Order)....more

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