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
6/19/2024
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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
8/11/2023
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The US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of a federal constitutional right to abortion — has had a tectonic impact. Less than...more
4/12/2023
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Stays
On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a report identifying three models that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)...more