Lexology December 17, 2020
Last week, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) that would amend privacy regulations implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to remove barriers to care coordination and case management. The Proposed Rule, whose changes are intended to support HHS’s Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, is based in part on the more than 1,300 comments HHS received in response to a December 2018 Request for Information, which we covered here.
HHS’s proposals generally focus on promoting greater access to and availability of protected health information (PHI), in alignment with recent HHS interoperability rules. Specifically, the Proposed Rule proposes to strengthen the individual right of access to PHI; enable greater...
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