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Welcome to the seventh issue of Greenberg Traurig’s quarterly Behavioral Health Law Ledger, keeping behavioral health and integrated health providers current on behavioral health legal and regulatory developments.

Section 3221 of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act required Department of Health and Human Services HHS to bring regulations codified at 42 CFR Part 2 pertaining to confidentiality of substance use disorder SUD patient records into greater alignment HIPAA.

Federal Trade Commission FTC began enforcement of Health Breach Notification Rule, taking aim at GoodRx tracking technology, sharing of consumer health data for advertising. HIPAA applicability may not be big factor to risk of collecting, using, identifiable health info.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently kicked off enforcement of its Health Breach Notification Rule (Breach Rule) by taking aim at GoodRx's use of tracking technologie...

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently submitted two annual reports to Congress setting forth a summary of complaints and breaches reported to the OCR during calendar year 2021...

On February 1, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that digital health platform GoodRx...

With 2023 underway, healthcare providers and other “covered entities,” as defined under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), should be mindful of the...

On November 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) proposed sweeping changes to the rules that govern use and disclosure of protected health information...

OCR clarifies that tracking technologies include applications used to gather information about users’ interactions with websites, which is then analyzed to create insights about users and their online activities.

The continued proliferation of tracking technologies has created a landscape of increased exposure for entities serving individuals online. As individuals are increasingly interacting...