Posts tagged notice.
Blogs
3 minute read
By Brandon Ge and Alaap Shah
The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) is taking laudable steps to improve notices of privacy practices (“NPPs”) and make them more clear, understandable, and user-friendly. Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, individuals are entitled to a receive an NPP informing them of how their health information may be used and shared, as well as how to exercise their health privacy rights. Health plans and health care providers must develop and distribute NPPs that clearly explain these rights and practices. Unfortunately, to date NPPs have been ...
Blog Editors
Recent Updates
- State Insurance Department Statements Scrutinize MA and MedSupp Unfair Trade Practices
- DOJ Subpoena Seeks Health Information of Hospital Patients Receiving Gender-Affirming Care: Will Judge Grant Motion to Quash?
- Podcast: 42 CFR Part 2 Final Rule: What’s Changing and What Do You Need to Know? – Diagnosing Health Care
- Congress Creates Yet Another Cliff for Medicare Telehealth Extensions (and We’re Running Out of Metaphors)
- OIRA Memo on Agency Deregulation: Implications for Health Care