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Introduction On 10 December 2020, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for the federal Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) issued Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support, and Remove Barriers to, Coordinated Care and Individual Engagement (the Proposed Rule). 1 The Proposed Rule comes nearly two years after OCR issued a Request for Information from stakeholders regarding the ways that HIPAA could be modernized to support coordinated, value-based care. 2 OCR i...

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 INTRODUCTION On 10 December 2020, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for the federal Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) issued Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support, and Remove Barriers to, Coordinated Care and Individual Engagement (the Proposed Rule). 1 The Proposed Rule comes nearly two years after OCR issued a Request for Information from stakeholders regarding the ways that HIPAA could be modernized to support ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 2 December 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Notice of Final Rulemaking in the Federal Register (Final Rule), 1 modifying the regulations implementing the federal physician self-referral law (the Stark Law). 2 In the Final Rule, CMS largely finalizes many of the proposals set forth in the Proposed Rulemaking issued on 17 October 2019 (Proposed Rule), 3 with certain modifications. CMS has indicate...

Analysis: CMS Finalizes Updates to the Stark Law to Reduce Regulatory Burdens and Provide Flexibility to Providers Wednesday, December 16, 2020 On 2 December 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Notice of Final Rulemaking in the  Federal Register (Final Rule), 1 modifying the regulations implementing the federal physician self-referral law (the Stark Law). 2 In the Final Rule, CMS largely finalizes many of the proposals set forth in the Proposed Rul...