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Chief Healthcare Executive December 21, 2024
Attention, Group Health Plans: New HIPAA Privacy Rule Governing Reproductive Health Care Information Imposes Obligations, Deadlines
Lexology May 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 industry or size — are considered covered entities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Therefore, individually identifiable medical information that group health plans create, use, store, or transmit is “protected health information” (PHI) pursuant to HIPAA. This update narrowly focuses on the enhanced HIPAA rules in the nationwide politically charged space of “reproductive health information” within group health plans, including attempted access by state law enforcement agencies.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published a final rule...
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