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🏥 US Health Privacy / HIPAA
US health-data privacy: HIPAA (Privacy, Security & Breach Notification Rules), HHS OCR enforcement, FTC health-privacy actions, and online-tracking in healthcare.
Key resources
- HHS — HIPAA home (Privacy, Security & Breach Notification Rules)
- HHS OCR — Compliance & enforcement (resolution agreements / CMPs)
- HHS OCR — Online tracking technologies bulletin (partly vacated by court, 2024)
- FTC — Health Breach Notification Rule
- FTC v. GoodRx — health-data sharing enforcement (2023)
🆕 Recent additions (auto)
- 2026-09-06 Video Episode 447 – Veloxis Pharmaceuticals’ $46 Million Kickback Settlement and What the CEP Really Rewards — In this episode of Corruption, Crime and Compliance, Michael Volkov breaks down Veloxis Pharmaceuticals’ more than $46 million settlement with DOJ and HHS-OIG over a years-long kickback scheme involving its kidney transplant drug Envarsus XR, a scheme the DPA says was directed in part by the company’s own former CEO. He examines why Veloxis avoided prosecution and instead secured a deferred prosecution agreement under DOJ’s Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy… (Health RSS Feed)
- 2026-09-04 Wellness Program FAQs: Agencies Offer Relief on Retroactive Rewards and Clarify Notice Requirements — In newly issued ACA Implementation FAQs (Part 74), the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury provide welcome guidance for employers sponsoring health-contingent wellness programs….By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP (Health RSS Feed)
- 2026-09-04 Tri-Agency Guidance Addresses Requirements for Tobacco Surcharge Programs — On August 26, 2026, the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”), issued important new guidance for plan sponsors addressing health-contingent wellness programs titled “FAQs About Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Implementation Part 74” (“2026 FAQs”). In response to the ongoing wave of tobacco surcharge lawsuits, the Departments issued the 2026 FAQs to address whether a health-contingent… (Health RSS Feed)
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