On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated regulations providing protections for reproductive health information as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The court found that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) exceeded its authority and unlawfully limited state law, effectively eliminating the rule […]
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Just over a week ago, a federal district court invalidated part of HHS’s 2016 guidance on the fees a covered entity can charge for patient records. The court found that HHS exceeded its authority when it declared that only a limited fee could be charged for records sent to a third party at a patient’s direction.