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OCR and HIPAA privacy update

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 9 2013

The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits met Tuesday with representatives of OCR regarding the HIPAA privacy and security rules. We certainly

What your business needs to do about HIPAAnow

  • Venable LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 1 2013

Whether you are an employer that provides health insurance for your employees, a business in the growing healthcare industry, a hospital, or other

Crunch time for employers: IRSTreasury hearing on employer shared responsibility under the Affordable Care Act

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • April 23 2013

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act comprehensively reforms health care financing and delivery in the United States. Because the law

Covered entities and business associates must take heed of recent HIPAA privacy sanctions

  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 10 2011

Two recent developments in the enforcement of the privacy and security rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") should give compliance officers of healthcare providers, health plans, and insurers pause

Changes to HIPAA regulations affect employer-sponsored medical plans

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 27 2013

In January 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released final regulations updating the Health Insurance Portability and

Is your organization adequately protected against liability under the new HIPAA “privacy” regulationsinsurance coverage considerations

  • Jenner & Block
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  • USA
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  • March 25 2013

On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced important modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and

What your business needs to do about the new HIPAA rules

  • Venable LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 21 2009

Whether you are an employer that provides health insurance for your employees, a business in the growing health care industry, or a hospital or other medical provider, you need to know about some key changes to the privacy and security rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"), which have been substantially broadened under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the "HITECH Act"

What HITECH and the related HHS guidance means for employer-sponsored health plans

  • King & Spalding LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 1 2010

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the "HITECH" Act), which was included as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, made significant changes to the HIPAA privacy and security rules

HIPAA covered health plans beware: HHS Office for Civil Rights kicks off HIPAA Audit Program

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 7 2012

Since November 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has been conducting audits of covered entities (the “HIPAA Audit Program”) for compliance with the privacy and security requirements under HIPAA and the HITECH Act (collectively, the “Privacy & Security Rules”

OCR releases HIPAA audit protocol

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 23 2012

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services recently published its audit protocol for assessing compliance with the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH