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Compliance Requirements, Regulatory Changes 6 Jan 2025 medicaid, compliance, drug abuse, health records, health care, employee benefit plans, health insurance, health facilities, medical research, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, privacy, hipaa, medicare, healthcare, investigations, health professions, hospitals, regulations, penalties, cybersecurity, administrative practice and procedure, health, computer technology, public health

🔐Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Enhancements for Cybersecurity Compliance

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or "Department") is issuing this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to solicit comment on its proposal to modify the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information ("Security Rule") under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act). The proposed modifications would revise existing standards to better protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI). The proposals in this NPRM would increase the cybersecurity for ePHI by revising the Security Rule to address: changes in the environment in which health care is provided; significant increases in breaches and cyberattacks; common deficiencies the Office for Civil Rights has observed in investigations into Security Rule compliance by covered entities and their business associates (collectively, "regulated entities"); other cybersecurity guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes; and court decisions that affect enforcement of the Security Rule.

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Compliance, Regulatory Changes 2 Jan 2025 homeland security, investigations, civil penalties, aliens, vessels, business compliance, fraud, administrative practice and procedure, regulatory requirements, harbors, maritime carriers, inflation adjustment, oil pollution, employment, freight, law enforcement, penalties, exports, reporting and recordkeeping requirements

📈Civil Penalty Inflation Adjustments

In this final rule, DHS adjusts for inflation its civil monetary penalties for 2025, in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 and Executive Office of the President (EOP) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance. The new penalty amounts will be effective for penalties assessed after January 2, 2025, whose associated violations occurred after November 2, 2015.

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