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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A proposed rule released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on December 10 would give healthcare providers more flexibility to share patients’ health information for certain purposes. The rule, titled “Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support, and Remove Barriers to, Coordinated Care and Individual Engagement,” would loosen HIPAA restrictions on sharing of substance use treatment information and other mental health information with patients’ families, and disclosure of Covid-19 infections ...

Thursday, December 17, 2020 As discussed in our Client Alert issued on December 10, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two long-awaited final rules that modernize and change the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations.  The final rule involves numerous changes, including long-awaited changes to the personal services and management contracts safe harbor under the AKS.  This alert addresses key changes to the personal services and management contracts safe ...

Individual Right of Access The NPRM would make several changes to individuals’ Privacy Rule right to inspect and obtain copies of their protected health information (PHI) maintained in a designated record set. The proposed changes would: Expand the methods that individuals may use when inspecting their health information to include the ability to take notes, videos and photographs. Require covered entity health care providers to allow patients to review PHI upon request that is readily available at the point of care in conjunction with a health care appointment. Reduce the time limit for co...

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 indicated that many of the changes to the Stark Law are intended to provide additional flexibility and reduc...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 On December 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. As a part of the OCR’s Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, this NPRM builds on the public comments previously received in response to the agency’s 2018 Request for Information on Modifying the HIPAA Rules to Improve Coordinated Care. HHS OCR proposes changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and requests comments regard...