On September 10, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal of the federal court ruling vacating key provisions of the HIPAA reproductive health care regulations, which appears to signal the end of the Purl case (previously discussed here) and to confirm the end of provisions of the HIPAA
Reproductive Health Care
OCR Issues Final Rule for Reproductive Privacy
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in HIPAA, Privacy and Security
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued its Final Rule to modify HIPAA “to support reproductive health care privacy.” The Final Rule is in response to Executive Order 14076, where President Biden directed HHS to take actions to protect reproductive health information following Dobbs v.
HHS Seeks to Strengthen Protections of Reproductive Health Information with Proposed Changes to HIPAA
On April 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) that seeks to enhance safeguards of reproductive health care information through changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The proposal is intended to align with President Biden’s Executive Order…