Lexology December 11, 2020
Highlights
- Privacy revisions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be on the horizon, with some potential changes that could benefit both patients and the healthcare industry. Other changes, if finalized, could require significant cost and effort, at least initially, for covered healthcare entities to implement.
- The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) includes a number of proposed changes regarding patients’ rights to access their own protected health information (PHI), facilitating certain information sharing and reducing administrative burdens.
- The proposed changes focus on federal regulations that could potentially impede a move to value-based healthcare, including an aim to amend the HIPAA Privacy...
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