Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Warrants

How to Handle Visits or Contacts by an ICE Agent

Kerr Russell on 3/25/2025

It has been reported that dentists and other health care professionals have been visited/contacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seeking to carry out “immigration policies” and to remove those unlawfully...more

ICE at Healthcare Facilities: What Should You Do

Husch Blackwell LLP on 2/13/2025

In 2003, Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Within the DHS is the interior enforcement arm, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that enforces federal laws governing border control,...more

Immigration Enforcement for Health Care Facilities

Shipman & Goodwin LLP on 2/3/2025

The Trump Administration’s flurry of executive orders directing the implementation of immigration policy objectives to carry out the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” has many hospitals and other...more

HIPAA and Subpoenas, Orders, and Administrative Demands

Holland & Hart LLP on 9/18/2023

The HIPAA privacy rules (45 CFR § 164.501 et seq.) generally prohibit healthcare providers and their business associates from disclosing protected health information in response to subpoenas and other government demands...more

HHS OCR Proposes Changes to HIPAA to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

Goodwin on 8/11/2023

On April 17, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Standards for Privacy for Individually Identifiable...more

Producing Patient Records: The “Designated Record Set,” the “Legal Health Record,” and Records Created by Other Providers

Holland & Hart - Health Law Blog on 2/22/2018

Healthcare providers often misunderstand their obligation to provide patient records in response to a request from a patient or third party....more