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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Immigration Enforcement and Healthcare Facilities: Key Considerations for Providers

Recent changes in federal immigration enforcement practices have prompted renewed attention to how healthcare providers manage requests from law enforcement agencies. While federal policy continues to recognize healthcare...more

Kerr Russell

How to Handle Visits or Contacts by an ICE Agent

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It has been reported that dentists and other health care professionals have been visited/contacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seeking to carry out “immigration policies” and to remove those unlawfully...more

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Implications of New Federal Immigration Policies for Health Care Facilities, Part 2: Patient Privacy Concerns

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On January 20, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded 2021 guidelines that previously designated hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities as “protected areas” and limited immigration enforcement...more

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Implications of New Federal Immigration Policies for Health Care Facilities, Part 1: Preparing for an Onsite Enforcement Action

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On January 20, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded 2021 guidelines that prohibited immigration enforcement actions in or near medical and health care facilities and other protected areas. Hospitals and...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

ICE at Healthcare Facilities: What Should You Do

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In 2003, Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Within the DHS is the interior enforcement arm, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that enforces federal laws governing border control,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: Guidelines for Healthcare Providers Responding to Immigration Enforcement Actions

Executive orders and changes to enforcement directives permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and agents from other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security to enter sensitive locations, such as...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - Medical Staff 101

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show! In this debut episode, podcast host Nick Healey, Healthcare Partner at Husch Blackwell, brings listeners into the important but sometimes...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

ICE in your Healthcare Facility? No Need to Freeze

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​​​​​​​For over a decade, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) were instructed pursuant to official policies to refrain from conducting law enforcement actions in or near various “sensitive locations”...more

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Rescission of the DHS Protected Areas Policy: Implications for Healthcare Systems

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On the newly installed Trump Administration's first day, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded the Biden Administration's guidelines for immigration enforcement actions in or near protected areas, such as...more

Jones Day

Immigration Enforcement Directives Create New Hurdles for Hospitals Advancing Standard Patient Care

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While hospitals will no longer be formally considered sensitive locations under new immigration directives, health care facilities and providers maintain responsibility to protect access to patient care and confidentiality....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Navigating Immigration in Healthcare Under a New Administration

On his first day in office, President Trump made good on several campaign promises by issuing various immigration-related executive orders. In his inauguration speech, the new president defended his actions by declaring:...more

Dentons

Ep. 35 – What You Need to Know About Part 2 Regulations – Even if You’re Not a Part 2 Provider

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Earlier this year, the US Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) released updated regulations governing the use and disclosure of substance use disorder records, referred to as “Part 2.”  The Part 2 rules protect...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Hurricane Season Brings Limited HIPAA Privacy Rule Relief

Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeastern United States from September 26-28, dumping nearly 30 inches of rain in some western North Carolina communities and causing catastrophic flooding, mudslides and wind damage along...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Advocate Aurora Health $12.2M Pixel Litigation Settlement Approved by Court

On July 10, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin granted plaintiffs’ Motion for Final Approval of a $12.2 million proposed settlement by Advocate Aurora Health to settle allegations against the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hackers Increasingly Leveraging Threats to Patients to Pressure Health Organizations to Pay Ransom

Cyberhackers—potentially frustrated by their limited ability to extort ransom from health care entities in attacks—have started extorting the patients themselves, threatening them with the release of information or...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Key Value-Based Care Developments to Watch in 2024

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The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more

Saul Ewing LLP

2024 Health Care Predictions

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Happy 2024!  The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - January 2024 #3

News Briefs - CMS Sets Prior Authorization Time Limits, Other Requirements - To combat growing criticism of prior authorization delays by payers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule that requires health...more

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New York Governor Proposes Stringent Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals

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New York is the first state to propose cybersecurity requirements for all hospitals operating in the state to address patient safety and other cybersecurity related issues....more

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Privacy Concerns at the Intersection of Generative AI and Healthcare

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Artificial intelligence that can create new texts, images, and other content (or“generative AI”) is revolutionizing every industry, and healthcare is no exception. Doctors are experimenting with using generative AI to improve...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Health Law Diagnosis - New York Enacts Long Negotiated Budget Bill with Sweeping Implications for Health Care

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On May 2, 2023, legislators approved the $229 billion New York State FY 2023-2024 Budget Bill (“the Budget”), which was signed by Governor Hochul on May 3, 2023. Article VII of the Budget touches almost every aspect of the...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

New York Enacts Long Negotiated Budget Bill with Sweeping Implications for Health Care

On May 2, 2023, legislators approved the $229 billion New York State FY 2023-2024 Budget Bill (“the Budget”), which was signed by Governor Hochul on May 3, 2023. Article VII of the Budget touches almost every aspect of the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said a data breach at a Medicare subcontractor impacted the personally identifiable information and protected...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

Stricter than HIPAA: Is Your Substance Abuse or Mental Health Program in Compliance With 42 CFR Part 2?

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To protect patients seeking addiction treatment, the federal government passed strict regulations limiting the disclosure of substance abuse patient records. Substance abuse treatment programs must not only comply with the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

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

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