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The Trend of Threatening Physicians for Personal Gain
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Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
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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
On July 8, a routine enforcement action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at a surgery center in California escalated into criminal charges for two health care workers. ICE agents were attempting to detain...more
In celebration of the back-to-school season, the Healthcare Compliance Podcast is launching a new Back to Basics series—this time with a focus on patient rights under HIPAA. Each Thursday in August, the podcast will cover a...more
Whenever the topic of health and medical data comes up, the prevailing assumption often is that any of this information is subject to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) just by virtue of...more
Earlier this year, I wrote an article outlining a new HIPAA rule that became effective on December 23, 2024, requiring healthcare providers to obtain a Reproductive Attestation before releasing medical records in response to...more
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
Immigration enforcement actions are no longer a theoretical concern for health care facilities — they are happening now....more
A U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas has vacated most of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the “Rule”) in the case of Purl v. DHHS. The ruling, which has immediate...more
Drug and device manufacturers are increasingly targeted by cyber threats that can compromise patient safety, intellectual property, and other critical data and systems, while also facing new regulatory demands. As regulators...more
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a decision in Carmen Purl, et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., vacating nearly all of the 2024 HIPAA...more
Thora Johnson and Alexandra Wood discuss: Key federal regulation including HIPAA The patchwork at the state level, including a growing number of state consumer health privacy laws...more
This week on the podcast, Lynnsey and Lauren are joined by their colleague, Maynard Nexsen healthcare attorney Shannon Lipham, who helps healthcare providers and practices navigate complex federal and state regulations....more
On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued more than 20 subpoenas to physicians and clinics (the “Providers”) who provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth. According to the...more
On June 18, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated most of the rules designed to enhance reproductive healthcare privacy promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, and the regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively “HIPAA”) is a...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced another settlement for alleged violations of HIPAA. OCR investigated BayCare Health System, which serves central Florida, after a...more
The FBI issued a warning on June 27, 2025, that criminals impersonating healthcare insurers and fraud investigators are sending text messages and emails to healthcare providers and patients to trick them into providing...more
On June 6, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a number of claims being brought against Google related to its alleged improper collection of health-related data though...more
Employers' access to, and retention of, employee medical information can be fraught with legal risk. Even the most seasoned HR professionals have trouble navigating the complex rules and regulations governing employee medical...more
Question: It was recently brought to my attention that a patient posted on the internet false and misleading information regarding treatment I provided to her. The posting also contains false and defamatory descriptions of me...more
Last year, the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) modified the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to strengthen protections for reproductive health care information (the “2024 Rule”)....more
For AI companies in the health care space, data is everything. It fuels model performance, drives product differentiation, and can make or break scalability. Yet too often, data rights are vaguely defined or completely...more
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
On June 18, 2025, a Texas court issued a ruling that vacated, on a nationwide basis, the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the “Reproductive Health Rule”), just one year after the rule went into...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 18, 2025, issued an order vacating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, published on April 26, 2024, which amended the Health...more
Comments on the RFI, due by June 16, present a rare opportunity to shape future technology standards, reporting requirements, and business opportunities....more