New HHS Final Rule Strengthening Reproductive Healthcare Privacy: HIPAA Updates, Possible State Law Conflicts
Prohibited Disclosures, Amended Definitions, Notice of Privacy Practices Revisions, Requestor Attestation, and More
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will guide healthcare practitioners through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) final rule amending HIPAA privacy regulations governing the use and disclosure of PHI related to reproductive healthcare information (RHI). The panel will discuss the final rule's requirements for regulated entities and under what circumstances they are prohibited from disclosing RHI. The panel will also address the dilemma facing regulated entities when determining whether to comply with state laws requiring the disclosure of RHI or HIPAA's privacy prohibitions and offer best practices for compliance.
Outline
- Introduction
- The final rule
- Purpose
- Covered entities
- Revised definitions
- Prohibited uses and disclosures
- Rule of applicability
- Presumption that healthcare at issue is lawful
- When the provider and requestor disagree as to whether the healthcare is lawfully provided
- Attestation
- Notice of privacy practices revisions
- Reporting abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
- Responding to law enforcement administrative requests
- Recognition of personal representative
- Disclosures authorized by patient
- Enforcement
- Compliance timeline
- Impact on healthcare providers
- Preparing for compliance
- When state law conflicts with HIPAA
- Relationship to information blocking regulations
- Practitioner takeaways
Benefits
The panel will review these and other important considerations:
- Who is covered by the final rule?
- Under what circumstances does the final rule prohibit the disclosure of RHI?
- When may regulated entities presume that the reproductive healthcare that was provided was lawful under the circumstances?
- How should regulated entities proceed when state law requirements appear to conflict with the final rule's prohibitions?
- What is the attestation requirement in the final rule?
- What revisions to NPPs are required by the final rule?
Faculty
![Hesse, Julia](/img/t/17aec3f5a8b58f24e6a471dd5feeca24.jpg)
Julia R. Hesse
Partner
Holland & Knight
Ms. Hesse advises physicians, clinicians and healthcare investors in the formation and expansion of management... | Read More
Ms. Hesse advises physicians, clinicians and healthcare investors in the formation and expansion of management companies across various specialties, with particular emphasis focused on dental practices, women's health, fertility centers, reproductive health, menopause and dermatology. Ms. Hesse has deep experience and knowledge representing fertility providers in transactional and complex regulatory and investigation matters. She is also a leading national authority on the regulation of dentists and dental support organizations, and advises on the unique structural and regulatory issues for investors in the dental space. In addition, Ms. Hesse counsels private equity and venture capital funds, as well as strategic investors, on healthcare diligence and transactional issues. She works closely with clients in the healthcare industry regarding regulatory matters such as fraud and abuse, self-referral laws, licensing, compliance, insurance, HIPAA and the HITECH Act, and state law privacy and data security concerns, including data breach issues.
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Beth Neal Pitman
Partner
Holland & Knight
Ms. Pitman advises healthcare systems and providers and healthcare information technology (IT) businesses when... | Read More
Ms. Pitman advises healthcare systems and providers and healthcare information technology (IT) businesses when navigating healthcare privacy and cybersecurity regulations, other healthcare regulations, and government reimbursement program matters. Her experience includes the development and ongoing management of comprehensive HIPAA compliance programs, including drafting and negotiating business associate agreements, policies and training. When a data breach or other privacy regulatory violation occurs, Ms. Pitman guides her clients through the process for responding to the breach and any subsequent federal or state government investigations. She also provides advice to clients related to the frequent changes associated with the many federal healthcare payment programs.
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