HHS Finalizes Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy
Manatt Health May 2, 2024
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The Big Picture
On April 22, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Final Rule to enhance the privacy of information related to reproductive health care. The Final Rule adds new purpose-based prohibitions on uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) to the existing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule regulations in an effort to better protect individuals providing or obtaining lawful reproductive health...