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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") continues to be actively engaged in investigating and settling alleged HIPAA violations. In advance of Mother's Day, two decisions were announced for HIPAA-covered entities that allegedly did not provide...
On February 14, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued two reports to Congress as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. The reports are helpful to health care providers (and all...
On February 16, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a final version of the cybersecurity resource guide (the “Guide”) with respect to the HIPAA Security Rule. As noted in the Guide’s abstract, “This publication provides...
On February 6, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a settlement with Montefiore Medical Center (“MMC”) for alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations and MMC agreed to pay $4.75 million and enter into a two-year corrective action plan (“CAP”) with OCR. MMC admitted no wrongdoing...
In December 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $480,000 settlement with a Louisiana medical group following a phishing incident. In 2021, the medical group filed a breach report with HHS stating that a hacker – through a...
On November 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced an $80,000 HIPAA settlement with Saint Joseph’s Medical Center (“SJMC”) in New York State. The settlement was the result of OCR’s investigation of SJMC after the Associated Press...
On Halloween, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $100,000 settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services (DMS), a Massachusetts medical management company that provides...
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced two (2) different settlements, one with a HIPAA business associate for $350,000 and one with a HIPAA-covered entity pursuant to the OCR Right of Access Initiative for $15,000...
Work Product Protection for Patient Safety Information Charles Kelly, MS, partner, at Saul Ewing LLP, will walk attendees through two important pieces of legislation that protect healthcare workers: the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, which ensures federal privilege and...
On December 2, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (“ OCR ”) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“ SAMHSA ”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“ HHS ”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ NPRM ”) to revise the Confidentiality of Substance Use...
Allison Burdette, associate at Saul Ewing, will be presenting to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles on October 12, 2022. She will focus on the topics of insight into regulatory/insurance litigations around compliance matters (i.e., Anti-kickback, Physician Self-Referrals, HIPAA, False Claims...
On June 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights issued guidance (the “Guidance”) for covered health care providers and health plans relating to the use of remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services in a manner that is...
Caroline Patterson brings more than 25 years of legal experience to her work representing practices and professionals in the health care industry in a variety of transactional, corporate, and regulatory matters. Her experience ranges from providing counsel in mergers, acquisitions, sales and private...
Counsel on Commercial Arrangements, Business Operations and Regulatory Matters Regardless of size or structure, health care providers, payors, entrepreneurs and businesses must navigate a complex maze of federal and state laws and regulations to remain economically competitive. Health care...
Brenda Glaser Abrams provides legal counsel on business contracts for health care industry clients, as well as on their operational and compliance issues. Physicians, dentists, and medical groups rely on her to negotiate and draft employment, shareholder, operating, and partnerships agreements. She...
Bruce Armon counsels clients on how federal and state health care laws affect health care businesses. His understanding of corporate health care stems from a combination of his work with physicians, physician groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, ancillary providers, device manufacturers...
Laura Katz brings significant experience in the health care industry to Saul Ewing where she balances her practice between health law and health insurance law. As a member of the Firm's Health Care and Insurance Practices, Laura represents health care providers and suppliers, along with health...
Scott Patterson centers his practice on negotiating contracts for procurement and licensing of complex technology. He has helped numerous clients to structure effective RFPs and negotiate agreements for a wide range of enterprise information systems, cloud/SaaS services, telecommunications systems...
Real-World Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Counseling Information is a vitally important asset in today’s digital age. Companies are collecting and processing unprecedented amounts of data, much of which is sensitive employee and customer information. Often, companies rely upon the assistance of...