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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Time to Revisit Your HIPAA Documents After Reproductive Health Privacy Rule Vacated

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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

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Executive Orders and Policy Updates

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Since President Trump's inauguration, the Trump administration has issued a number of executive orders and policy actions with potential impacts for the life sciences industry. Notable actions include rescinding Biden-era...more

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Abortion Rights Ballot Measures Pass in Seven States

On November 5, 2024, seven states approved ballot measures to reaffirm the right to abortion, and three states rejected ballot measures to legalize abortion. These ballot results could have a significant impact on employers...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Just Say No!  HIPAA and Requests for Reproductive Health Information

On April 22, 2024, the Office of Civil Rights issued a Final Rule titled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (2024 Final Privacy Rule). Originally Published by the American Bar Association....more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Employers Must Keep Reproductive Health Information About Their Plan Participants Private Under New HIPAA Privacy Rule

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

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It’s Not Just About Dobbs: HHS Issues Final Rule on Reproductive Health

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On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its long-awaited Final Rule regarding reproductive health privacy. Although it is tempting to benchmark the Final Rule against the Dobbs...more

Snell & Wilmer

2023 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists (Part 1) Health and Welfare

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We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues....more

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Healthcare in a Post-Roe World

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The long-term implications of the Dobbs decision are unknown, but its impact on stakeholders in the healthcare industry will continue for years to come. The US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's...more

Snell & Wilmer

2022 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health and Welfare

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We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues....more

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[Webinar] Luminary Series: Five Healthcare Litigation Trends For 2022 - A Discussion with Jon Braunstein, Partner at Dentons -...

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Health care is a highly innovative, lucrative, and regulated industry, which also makes it a highly litigious industry. From a legal perspective, it makes sense for practitioners to pay close attention to trends happening in...more

Law Matters

Two Months Post-'Dobbs' What Healthcare Providers Need to Know — Q&A with Joan W. Feldman

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Two months post-Dobbs, Shipman & Goodwin's Joan W. Feldman shares her insights and her predictions for the future of reproductive health law issues....more

Akerman LLP

Providing Healthcare in a Post-Dobbs America Presents Evolving Challenges

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The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization represents a sea-change in Constitutional law that has already impacted our country in multiple ways. By overruling Roe v. Wade (1973)...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Employer Provided Travel Benefits in Response to Dobbs and State Prohibitions on Abortion

The implications of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional right to abortion have had sweeping implications that affect...more

Alston & Bird

Post-Roe Issues for Health Plan Sponsors: Navigating the Rapidly Changing Legal Landscape

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After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling overturning Roe, employer health plans and insurers are left with the task of determining which state laws are applicable and whether federal preemption (under ERISA or otherwise)...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

The Demise of Roe v. Wade: Employment and Benefits Considerations

On June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 2022 WL 2276808 (June 24, 2022), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey 505...more

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