The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy proposed rule on April 12, 2023 aimed at providing additional requirements around the sharing of protected health information (PHI) relating to patient initiated and provider administered reproductive health care. OCR has […]
Read more June 20, 2022 – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formally withdrawn a Trump administration rule that threatened to cause many HHS regulations to expire. HHS announced its decision in a recent 133-page withdrawal notice in the Federal Register, stating that the “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely” (SUNSET) final rule […]
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March 22, 2021 – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has postponed for one year the effective date of its Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely (SUNSET) final rule – put in place in the final days of the Trump administration – pending judicial review of a lawsuit filed March 9. In […]
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