American Hospital Association April 22, 2024

The Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights April 22 released a final rule prohibiting entities regulated by the HIPAA Privacy Rule from using or disclosing protected health information to investigate or prosecute patients, providers or others involved in providing legal reproductive health services. The rule requires covered entities to obtain a signed attestation that certain requests for PHI potentially related to reproductive health care are not for these prohibited purposes. As requested...

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, HHS, HIPAA, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider
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