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Reproductive Healthcare Privacy Rule Struck Down Nationwide by Texas Judge: What Providers and Employer-Sponsored Health Plans...

Fisher Phillips on 6/26/2025

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

2025 Health Care Predictions

Saul Ewing LLP on 1/9/2025

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

HIPAA Reproductive Privacy Rule Takes Effect Amid Legal and Political Uncertainties

ArentFox Schiff on 12/20/2024

As of December 23, health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses (covered entities) and their business associates (collectively, regulated entities) must comply with new reproductive health care privacy...more

HHS-OCR Publishes Final HIPAA Privacy Rule Expanding Reproductive Health Care Privacy and Further Supporting Patient...

Goodwin on 6/19/2024

On April 26, 2024, almost a year after issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Privacy Rule, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) finalized the HIPAA Privacy Rule to...more

New HIPAA Privacy Protections for Reproductive Healthcare: What You Need to Know and 5 Steps You Can Take Now

Fisher Phillips on 6/17/2024

A new final rule under HIPAA adds more compliance requirements aimed at supporting reproductive healthcare privacy – so you need to take note if you are a healthcare provider, employer-sponsored group health plan, or other...more

New Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Under HIPAA

Fenwick & West LLP on 5/31/2024

On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implemented a Final Rule enhancing the HIPAA Privacy Rule to safeguard reproductive health care privacy. Given the recent Dobbs decision, HHS expressed...more

Attention, Group Health Plans: New HIPAA Privacy Rule Governing Reproductive Health Care Information Imposes Obligations,...

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 5/23/2024

It is critical for employers and plan fiduciaries/administrators to stay informed of HIPAA privacy and security-related legal developments because most employer sponsored group health plans — regardless of the employer’s...more

HHS Publishes Final Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/23/2024

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to eliminate the federal constitutional right to abortion continues to alter the legal landscape across the country. On April 26, 2024, the...more

Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule Provide Greater Protections for PHI Related to Lawful Reproductive Health Care – Regulated Entities...

Brooks Pierce on 5/15/2024

The HIPAA Privacy Rule has been amended to provide greater protections for protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care. Covered entities and business associates should familiarize themselves with...more

HIPAA Privacy Final Rule: Landmark Changes Related to Reproductive Health Care Information

Polsinelli on 5/14/2024

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a “Final Rule,” HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, which was published in the Federal...more

Health Care Week In Review: HHS Final Rule and President Biden Executive Order

Alston & Bird on 4/24/2023

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Healthcare in a Post-Roe World

Goodwin on 10/21/2022

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

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/11/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more

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

Hanzo on 9/6/2022

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

Providing Healthcare in a Post-Dobbs America Presents Evolving Challenges

Akerman LLP on 8/19/2022

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

Health Care Week in Review: President Biden’s Executive Order Securing Access to Reproductive and Health Care Services

Alston & Bird on 8/8/2022

Below is Alston & Bird's Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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