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Covered entities and business associates now have a 90-day transition period, ending on Aug. 9, 2023, in which to bring their telehealth practices into compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Enforcement Rules HIPAA Rules.

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) in the United States came to an end on May 11, 2023. Simultaneously, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights...

Crossings have dropped nearly in half since title 42 was lifted. >> how do you think things are going at the border, sir? >> much better than -- much better than you all expected. >> reporter: the president touting the drop over the weekend after the border patrol reported 11,000 apprehensions on tuesday and wednesday, that number dramatically dwindled to just over 4,000 saturday and sunday. the biden administration believes their series of new stricter enforcement rules for asylum seekers is sl...

Like many regulatory standards, enforcement of HIPAA was relaxed as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response. With the end of the public health emergency declaration on May 11, 2023, the ...

The Office of Civil Rights is providing a 90-day transition period for healthcare providers to come into compliance with the HIPAA Rules regarding telehealth, according to the Department of Health and Human Services OCR. The transition period will be in effect beginning on May 12 and will expire at 11:59 p.m. on August 9. OCR said it would continue to exercise its enforcement

BACKGROUND - As we noted in prior health care alerts in 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) significantly overhauled the federal law that governs...

As we noted in prior health care alerts in 2020 (available here and here), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)…

Office for Civil Rights and the SAMHSA, each within the HHS issued a NPRM setting out the long-awaited proposed modifications to the existing Part 2 regulations to implement statutory amendments under the CARES Act to align certain Part 2 requirements more closely to HIPAA.

Taipei, Dec. 23 (CNA) Current regulations that require people who have returned to Taiwan either briefly or have cut short trips overseas to pay National Health Insurance (NHI) premiums are unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday, as such regulations needed a stronger legal basis given the importance of the issue.

TWO-YEAR REVIEW: The constitutional court ruled that the three-month wait time between reinstating and suspending NHI payments is not authorized by lawBy Wu Cheng-feng and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer