Enforcement News: Scrutinize Your Policy for Clauses That Bar Coverage for HIPAA Investigation

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Article Overview

This article surveys several healthcare compliance and enforcement developments that may matter to providers, laboratories, and other covered entities. It discusses a dispute over insurance coverage for a HIPAA investigation, new model policy guidance for telemedicine regulation, and a continuing FTC enforcement matter involving healthcare data security practices. The piece is relevant to compliance leaders, risk managers, counsel, and healthcare organizations monitoring regulatory exposure and policy change.

Why This Topic Matters

It highlights how insurance policy language, telemedicine regulation, and federal enforcement activity can affect compliance risk and litigation exposure for healthcare organizations.

Article Sections

  1. Coverage dispute over HIPAA investigation defense costs

    Discusses a liability insurance dispute involving defense costs tied to a federal HIPAA investigation and the parties’ competing positions on coverage applicability.

  2. Regulatory future of telemedicine

    Summarizes a model policy issued to guide state oversight of telemedicine technologies and broader cross-state practice considerations.

  3. LabMD continues its squabbles with the FTC

    Reviews a federal court decision affecting an FTC enforcement matter involving healthcare data security practices and the procedural path of the case.

What You Will Learn

  • How healthcare enforcement actions can intersect with liability insurance coverage disputes
  • What the article says about emerging telemedicine regulatory guidance
  • How an FTC enforcement case involving data security is progressing procedurally
  • Which types of organizations should monitor these regulatory developments

Who Should Read This

  • Healthcare compliance professionals
  • Risk managers
  • Healthcare attorneys
  • Physician practices and provider organizations
  • Laboratories
  • Covered entities

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