Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Employer Group Health Plans, HIPAA Privacy Rule

Benefits Monthly Minute - August 2024

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 8/28/2024

The August Monthly Minute highlights new IRS guidance addressing student loan matching programs, HHS’s increases to civil monetary penalties and Form 5330 paper filing updates....more

HHS Updates HIPAA Privacy Rule to Protect Reproductive Healthcare Privacy: What Group Health Plans Need to Know

Hall Benefits Law on 8/1/2024

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule that modifies the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“the Privacy Rule”) under the Health Insurance...more

ERISA Blog | Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rules A Primer for Self-Insured Group Health Plans

Kilpatrick on 7/26/2024

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA Privacy Rules for reproductive health care information. The Final Rule...more

Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rules – A Primer for Self-Insured Group Health Plans

Kilpatrick on 7/19/2024

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA Privacy Rules for reproductive health care information. The Final Rule...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

Federal Regulators Clarify the Application of HIPAA Privacy and Nondiscrimination Rules to COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 10/18/2021

On September 30, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued FAQs addressing how the HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to individuals’ disclosures of their COVID-19 vaccination status in the workplace and health...more

HHS Proposes Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rules Affecting Group Health Plans

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/22/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule that protects the privacy and security of individuals’ protected health...more

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