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NIST HIPAA Security Rule Guidance

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.04.08

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a set of detailed guidance materials to serve as a framework for complying with the HIPAA security rules. The guidance includes checklists for compliance requirements, a glossary, cross references to standards and definitions, and a table of prior NIST published standards on security in various types of situations. Click here to download "An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accoutability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule" [PDF] from csrc.nist.gov.

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Client Alert | 6 min read | 03.26.24

California Office of Health Care Affordability Notice Requirement for Material Change Transactions Closing on or After April 1, 2024

Starting next week, on April 1st, health care entities in California closing “material change transactions” will be required to notify California’s new Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) and potentially undergo an extensive review process prior to closing. The new review process will impact a broad range of providers, payers, delivery systems, and pharmacy benefit managers with either a current California footprint or a plan to expand into the California market. While health care service plans in California are already subject to an extensive transaction approval process by the Department of Managed Health Care, other health care entities in California have not been required to file notices of transactions historically, and so the notice requirement will have a significant impact on how health care entities need to structure and close deals in California, and the timing on which closing is permitted to occur....