Fierce Healthcare November 2, 2023
Dave Muoio

Hospitals are taking their campaign against the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) “rule for thee but not for me” crackdown on third-party web trackers to the courts.

In a new federal lawsuit (PDF)—filed Thursday in the Northern District of Texas by the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Texas Hospital Association and two health systems, Texas Health Resources and United Regional Health Care System—the hospital lobby called on the judicial branch to bar enforcement of a December 2022 bulletin released by HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

That bulletin addressed tools like the Meta Pixel and Google Analytics that media and researcher investigations have found across nearly all hospital websites and that have since become a focus of class-action...

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