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The Trend of Threatening Physicians for Personal Gain
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Top Healthcare Compliance Priorities for 2025
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Building a Solid HR Foundation in Healthcare Practices
New Developments in Health Information Policy
New HIPAA Final Rule: Key Changes to Reproductive Health Care Privacy - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
Healthcare Document Retention
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Conducting Healthcare Compliance Investigations
The FTC's Health Privacy Enforcement Actions
Web-based Tracking Technology and AI: HIPAA Compliance Issues for Health Care Practices
Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations
Podcast: Keeping an Eye on HIPAA Trends with Shannon Hartsfield
Podcast - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and How to Comply with HIPAA & State Privacy Laws
Meeting Cancer Reporting Requirements
In the wake of a recent federal District Court decision, the reproductive health care HIPAA Privacy rules finalized during the Biden Administration have been vacated and plan sponsors should re-evaluate the language included...more
AI scribes are quickly becoming the digital sidekick of modern health care. They promise to reduce clinician burnout, streamline documentation, and improve the patient experience. But as health care providers and digital...more
In December 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law two bills (A8872A and S2376B; collectively, the “Bills”) that amend New York’s Data Breach Notification Law. The Bills introduce a maximum thirty-day timeframe...more
Hello. Our Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group is thrilled to share with you our 2025 predictions article addressing multiple areas of interest in the health care delivery system. Many of our group’s colleagues have shared...more
It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more
On November 20, 2024, OIG released new compliance program guidelines for nursing facilities titled, “Nursing Facility Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance” (the Nursing Facility ICPG or the Guidance). The...more
With technology rapidly evolving and jurisdictions appearing blurred, it is increasingly important to be mindful of data flow and use. This is particularly true where patient data is being accessed by offshore subcontractors....more
Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on recent developments in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") regulatory...more
Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently published its Final Rule amending the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”). The updated HBNR, which regulates entities that handle certain personal health information, other...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that HHS's December 1, 2022, guidance applying HIPAA to online tracking technologies is unlawful with respect to its treatment of certain combinations of...more
On May 24 2024, Senate Bill 4757, a bill for an act relating to commerce containing the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the 'Act'), was approved by the Governor of Minnesota. The Act, which becomes effective on July 31...more
On June 20, 2024, a Texas federal court vacated the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR's) controversial guidance concerning Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates, available here....more
On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final regulatory updates to the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more
Welcome to our second issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! SCOTUS Agrees to Review Medicare DSH Payments Case - “The suit, Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Becerra, was originally filed in...more
Who will notify the potentially millions of individuals whose information might have been jeopardized by the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare? Since the affiliate of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) first reported the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to amend its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBN Rule). The HBN Rule requires certain entities that handle unsecured personally identifiable health data to notify...more
On May 17, 2024, Colorado Governor signed into law, Senate Bill 24-205, the Colorado Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act (the “Act”). The law will take effect on February 1, 2026 and the Colorado Attorney General will have...more
The healthcare industry remains a popular target for ransomware attacks. If you haven’t been impacted by a ransomware attack, it’s likely only a matter of time before someone you do business with or buy services from is...more
In the rapidly evolving landscape of health care, the surge in telehealth has been nothing short of revolutionary. This digital transformation, while offering unprecedented access to health care services, also introduces a...more
On April 26, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved its Final Rule revising the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) (“Final Rule”) by a 3-2 vote. The HBNR requires vendors of personal health records (PHR) and related...more
Imagine you are a corporate Human Resources/Total Rewards leader who receives a request from a state’s law enforcement agency for health plan records about a plan participant’s abortions or other reproductive health care. How...more
On April 26, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a Final Rule that adds protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule...more
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
On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to amend its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBN Rule). The HBN Rule works as a complement and counterpart to the breach notification requirements...more