Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Covered Entities, Executive Orders

Final HIPAA Privacy Rule Increases Protection of Reproductive Health Care Data

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 5/10/2024

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued final regulations (“Reproductive Health Care Rule”) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more

President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence - Initial Analysis of Private Sector Implications

Latham & Watkins LLP on 11/6/2023

The Order marks an ambitious effort to stand up a whole-of-government approach to encouraging the benefits and managing the risks of artificial intelligence, with many of its most significant private-sector implications...more

The Biden Administration’s Guidance on Risks to Privacy of Reproductive Health Information Post-Dobbs

WilmerHale on 7/21/2022

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Biden Administration has outlined a framework for federal executive action designed to protect access to...more

HHS Issues Guidance on Post-Dobbs Protections Under HIPAA Privacy Rule

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/13/2022

Many states have enacted or revived statutes limiting or barring access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States’ ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and further legislative or...more

OCR Urges Private Sector to Beef Up Ransomware Protections

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/15/2021

Echoing other agencies in recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an alert sharing resources to address and protect institutions against the recent influx of...more

Six Questions and Answers About CMS’ Recommended Changes to 340B Medicare Reimbursement

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 7/17/2017

In March, I posted about the Uncertain Future of the 340B Drug Discount Program. When opining about What Could Happen Next I speculated about possible changes to government reimbursement for 340B drugs “so that government...more