Today the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) finalized rules published in December of 2022 changing the requirements for handling SUD patient information governed by 45 CFR part
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Health Care Providers: Have You Considered HIPAA Compliance for Your Practice’s Group Health Plans?
Contributed by Elizabeth R. Larkin and Jessica Forbes Olson
Health care providers know about and have worked with HIPAA privacy and security rules for well over a decade. They have…
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Protecting Health Information in the Context of Divorce Proceedings and Domestic Relations – Part III
(Part III continues Part I and Part II of this series on privacy of health information in the domestic relations context, which may be found here and here. Capitalized…
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Protecting Health Information in the Context of Divorce Proceedings and Domestic Relations – Part II
(Part I of this series on privacy of health information in the domestic relations context may be found here. Capitalized words not defined in this Part II shall have…
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Protecting Health Information in the Context of Divorce Proceedings and Domestic Relations – Part I
The November 2014 ruling in the Connecticut Supreme Court in the case of Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C., — A.3d —-, 2014, WL 5507439 (2014)…
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Hobby Lobby, HIPAA and Happy Independence Day
The recent United States Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. has attorneys, pundits, policy-makers and businesses (yes, corporations are people, too) pondering big, quintessentially American…
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Avoiding a HIPAA Identity Crisis in 2014
Who you are makes a big difference in how and whether you must protect individually identifiable health information under HIPAA. As we near the end of 2013, I look back…
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Ten Days, Ten Tips – Countdown to Omnibus Rule Compliance #2
Unless the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) makes another last-minute, litigation-inspired decision to delay the September 23, 2013 compliance date, we’re well into the 10-day countdown for compliance…
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Ten Days, Ten Tips – Countdown to Omnibus Rule Compliance
Unless the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) makes another last-minute, litigation-inspired decision to delay the September 23, 2013 compliance date, we’re on a 10-day countdown for compliance with…
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