8/6/2025 10:08:14 PM New California Medical Debt Disclosure Law Now in Effect—What Providers Need to Know Now By Paul Pitts James Hennessy Smita Patil Effective July 1, 2025, California law requires any contract creating medical debt to include a specific consumer disclosure indicating...
7/8/2025 2:37:52 AM HHS Announces Policy on Criminal Referrals for Regulatory Violations By Rebecca Jones McKnight Nancy Halstead Matthew Loughran The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new general policy on what factors the agency will take into...
1/16/2025 5:32:51 AM Perceived industry compliance failures prompt stringent proposed HIPAA Security Rule By Nancy Halstead Wendell Bartnick Vicki Tankle Angela Matney Garrison Ambrose +2 more... Show less In an era where cyberattacks on the health care industry have become alarmingly frequent and catastrophic, the U.S. Department of Health...
12/12/2024 5:17:25 PM OCR Sets Precedent with Settlement Over Impermissible Disclosure of Reproductive Health Information By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Angela Matney Garrison Ambrose +1 more... Show less The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) will start to enforce compliance later this month with...
9/3/2024 7:52:42 PM Artificial Intelligence raises important legal and policy considerations for patient data and clinical trials By Matthew Loughran The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and development and the research and development of AI solutions themselves create...
7/16/2024 3:09:36 PM HHS Finalizes Rule on Health Care Provider Information Blocking Penalties By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Garrison Ambrose Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”)...
3/22/2024 2:34:52 PM States’ legislative reaction to Dobbs impacts consumer health data privacy By Wendell Bartnick Angela Matney Vicki Tankle Nancy Halstead +1 more... Show less In the two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision from the Supreme Court, state legislatures and courts have attempted...
11/7/2023 6:46:53 PM HHS OIG Issues General Guidance as First Step in Effort to Modernize Compliance Guidance By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Lesley Reynolds Matthew Loughran As promised back in April in an announcement of its plans to modernize compliance program guidance, the Department of Health and Human...
6/27/2023 5:42:54 PM Patient access and big-ticket data breaches lead OCR enforcement initiatives By Catherine David HIPAA enforcement actions in the past year have continued to focus on the patient right to access initiative and large scale data...
1/10/2023 7:44:38 PM HHS proposes update to Part 2 confidentiality regulations to align with HIPAA By Vicki Tankle Craig Anderson Arielle Lusardi The Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a proposed rule that would streamline the federal regulations governing the...
12/9/2022 8:29:29 PM HHS Proposes Rule to Update Retail Pharmacy Standards for Electronic Transactions under HIPAA By Brittney Cafero The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has proposed a rule that updates retail pharmacy standards for electronic...
7/6/2022 2:46:53 PM New Guidance by OCR addresses HIPAA and Disclosures of Information relating to Reproductive Health By Craig Anderson On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued two pieces of guidance...
7/15/2021 9:45:40 PM Consensus among HHS agencies on addressing social determinants of health through better data capture, interoperability By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Over the last decade, members of the medical and public health communities around the world have widely studied and acknowledged the...
6/8/2021 8:43:05 PM Patient Right of Access Under HIPAA and Increased Enforcement By Alyssa Chai This post was also written by Marquan Robertson, a Reed Smith summer associate. In 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services...
12/14/2020 7:46:21 PM HHS proposes important changes to key aspects of HIPAA Privacy Rule By Nancy Halstead Brad Rostolsky Vicki Tankle The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency that enforces the Health Insurance...
10/2/2020 7:36:05 PM Patient access to health information at the forefront of government initiatives and scrutiny By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Even amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, this year multiple U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies have dialed in...