I must thank Justice Scalia for injecting this delightfully descriptive term into the realm of health care. Justice Scalia’s scathing dissent from the majority in the recent Supreme Court decision
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Providers: Beware of HIPAA and Patient Privacy Rules During Employment Disputes
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were once again quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Beware of HIPAA,…
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Doctor is Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Thousands of Patient Records
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Doctor is Arrested for Stealing…
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When HIPAA Applies to Patient Assistance Programs (and When it Doesn’t), Part 2
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I posed a question in Part 1 of this post which I will summarize here: is personal health information provided to a Patient Assistance Program (PAP) in order to help…
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When HIPAA Applies to Patient Assistance Programs (and When It Doesn’t)
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Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) have proliferated in recent years, despite the fact that many commonly-prescribed medications have lost patent protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has attempted to eliminate…
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Protecting Health Information in the Context of Divorce Proceedings and Domestic Relations – Part III
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(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
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(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
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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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“Digital Quarantine” or Vaccination? What Cybersecurity Experts Can Learn from Health Care
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Perhaps the health care industry has a cybersecurity solution staring us in the face: vaccines. Perhaps we should be trying to vaccinate our data storage systems rather than relying on…
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Not All Sensitive Health Information is Protected Health Information Under HIPAA
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Recently our partner Keith R. McMurdy posted an entry on the Fox Rothschild Employee Benefits Legal Blog entitled “HIPAA Medical Privacy Matters: Court Permits ADA Claim to Proceed.” While the…
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