New HIPAA Requirements Place Additional Privacy Obligations on Covered Entities and Patients in an Effort to Protect Reproductive Health Care Information

Lexology June 21, 2024
Proskauer Rose LLP

On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for the United States Department of Health and Human Services issued a Final Rule amending the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Final Rule, which goes into effect on June 25, 2024, promulgates additional HIPAA privacy protections with respect to protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care[i]. Note, the compliance deadline is December 22, 2024, and the changes required to Notices of Privacy Practices (NPPs) must be implemented by February 16, 2026.

OCR’s issuance of the Final Rule represents part of the Federal government’s regulatory response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022),...

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