Lexology June 19, 2025
Late on Wednesday June 18, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order vacating almost the entirety of HHS’s 2024amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule that created special protections for reproductive health care information (the “Reproductive Health Privacy Rule”). The order was issued in a case brought by a Texas health care provider challenging the Reproductive Health Privacy Rule on the bases that the Rule unlawfully limited mandatory child abuse reporting, impermissibly redefined key statutory terms such as “person” and “public health,” and exceeded HHS’s statutory authority by using HIPAA to impose special rules for reproductive health care information. Purl, M.D. et al, v. United States Department of Health and...
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