McKnight's April 19, 2023
Well, we knew it might happen sometime. We saw the silver lining of COVID-19 these past few years in the form of relaxed rules by the government to allow for the easier implementation and proliferation of telehealth to help with the pandemic.
But on April 11, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Office for Civil Rights announced that those previous notifications regarding relaxed HIPAA enforcement that, in part, supported telehealth use during the pandemic, are now being revoked on May 11 due to the expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE).
That means providers have 90 days (from May 12, 2023, to Aug. 9, 2023) to come back into compliance with all HIPAA...
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