HIPAA Medical Surveys
Frequently, hospitals and other healthcare providers will want to conduct HIPAA medical surveys or questionnaires of patients, to determine whether patients were satisfied with the quality of care ...
Read MoreFrequently, hospitals and other healthcare providers will want to conduct HIPAA medical surveys or questionnaires of patients, to determine whether patients were satisfied with the quality of care ...
Read MoreThe Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) of 2008 was the first state law in the country to regulate biometric data use. For physicians, the intersection of laws such as BIPA and the fe...
Read MoreWilliam Buckley famously described a conservative as a person who “stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urg...
Read MoreConsumer data privacy appears to be on the minds of legislators in Arizona this session. As Read More
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has modified HIPAA retail pharmacy transaction requirements to differentiate between partial fill and full refills of opioids and other Schedule II...
Read MoreOn Monday, February 10th, the California Attorney General’s office released an updated version of the proposed regulations, addressing errors in the draft released before...
Read MoreIt seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient’s legal right to amend or correct a mistake in his or her records was severely limited. Only ...
Read MoreOn January 23, 2020, the D.C. District Court narrowed an individual’s right to request that HIPAA covered entities furnish the individual’s own protected health information (“PHI”) to a thi...
Read MoreIssues with HIPAA and nursing home care have arisen over disclosure of medical records of deceased residents. Several years ago, a federal appeals court had to decide a case involving HIPAA and nur...
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