Starting in 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has taken an increased interest in protecting patients’ right of access to protected health information (“PHI”) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). Over the past twenty months, OCR has announced nineteen settlements under its Right of Access
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Patient Right of Access Under HIPAA and Increased Enforcement
By Alyssa Chai on
This post was also written by Marquan Robertson, a Reed Smith summer associate.
In 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced its Right of Access Initiative. The Right of Access Initiative realizes OCR’s commitment to ensuring the aggressive enforcement of patients’ rights to receive copies of their medical…