On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Final Rule modifying the Health Insurance Portability ...
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 ...
This explainer provides a high-level overview of these protections and the statutes that establish such rights, certain ...
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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra holds a press conference with OCR Director Melanie Fontes-Rainer to announce a new privacy rule for reproductive healthcare information ...
Patients have a right to privacy when it comes to their medical information, even when they travel to another state for an abortion, IVF, birth control or other types of reproductive health care, ...
Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...
The Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 plunged the United States into a quagmire as anti-choice states hurried to ban abortion or enact draconian restrictions ...
These modifications were outlined in a “Notice of Proposed Rule Making” on Jan. 21, 2021. But it was not a priority until very recently, when HHS announced plans to finalize this rule in March 2023.
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