Health Care
By: Stephanie T. Eckerle, Brandon W. Shirley, and Madison Hartman Harada
on February 12, 2025
Non-profit healthcare entities may soon have greater flexibility when it comes to patient assistance programs that subsidize the cost of prescription drugs for their patients residing in rural areas. Generally, such programs risk violating the patient remuneration prohibition under the federal…
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By: Stacy Walton Long and Christopher J. Kulik
on February 4, 2025
Under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, entities regulated under HIPAA must report breaches affecting less than 500 individuals to the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) within sixty days following the end of each calendar year. Therefore, the deadline to report 2024 breaches…
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By: Stephanie T. Eckerle, Scott S. Morrisson, and Grant M. Achenbach
on July 25, 2024
Restrictive covenants in Indiana have long been a topic of litigation and debate for health care providers, private practices, and health systems. Historically, and before there were statutory restrictions for physician non-competes, there is a long line of cases that have required physician…
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By: Stacy Walton Long and Christopher J. Kulik
on July 23, 2024
Effective July 31, 2024, health care providers will be subject to “disincentives” for committing information blocking. As codified under the 21st Century Cures Act, information blocking is when an “actor” (e.g. health care provider) interferes with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health…
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By: Grant M. Achenbach and Brandon W. Shirley
on June 5, 2024
The beginning of July always brings fireworks, cookouts, patriotic festivities, and a laundry list of new laws with a July 1 effective date. This year is no different, as several new laws applicable to health care providers were enacted by the Indiana General Assembly during the 2024 legislative…
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By: Stephanie T. Eckerle and Shelley M. Jackson
on June 3, 2024
Covered Entities as defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and its implementing regulations (“HIPAA”), including health care providers and health plans, must have HIPAA policies and procedures in place to protect the privacy and security of patients’ protected health…
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By: Christopher J. Kulik
on May 20, 2024
On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“HHS-OCR”) published a final rule (the “Rule”), which amends the HIPAA Privacy Rule to afford greater reproductive health care privacy protection. Highlights of the new Rule that will have a practical…
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