{"id":"AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-006","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (federal); Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-HEALTH-OTHER","eco":"","issuer":"Melanie Fontes Rainer, Director, Office for Civil Rights, HHS","authority":"HIPAA Rules; enforcement discretion","instrument":"Notice of Expiration of Certain Notifications of Enforcement Discretion Issued in Response to the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency, 88 Fed. Reg. 22380 (Apr. 13, 2023)","title":"Notice of Expiration of Certain Notifications of Enforcement Discretion Issued in Response to the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency","dateIssued":"2023-04-11","effective":"2023-04-13 (notifications expire 11:59 p.m. May 11, 2023; telehealth transition period to 11:59 p.m. Aug. 9, 2023)","end":"2023-08-09","startDate":"2023-04-13","endDate":"2023-08-09","quarters":[],"types":["HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["covered entities and business associates"],"clause":"OCR is informing the public that these Notifications, which were published in the Federal Register on April 7, 2020, April 21, 2020, May 18, 2020, and February 24, 2021, expire upon expiration of the COVID-19 PHE, which is currently scheduled for 11:59 p.m. on May 11, 2023.... In addition, OCR is affording covered health care providers a 90-calendar day transition period to come into compliance with the HIPAA Rules with respect to their provision of telehealth using non-public facing remote communication technologies.","enforcement":"Resumption of HIPAA penalties after the stated dates","functions":["TM telehealth","OF administration"],"notes":"Post-period instrument saved for the end dates it fixes: every OCR notification in this cluster was in force for the whole of 2020 Q2 through 2021 Q3.","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-04-13/pdf/2023-07824.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":184664,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER","url":"/library/AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-006","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-006","citation":"Melanie Fontes Rainer, Director, Office for Civil Rights, HHS, Notice of Expiration of Certain Notifications of Enforcement Discretion Issued in Response to the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency, 88 Fed. Reg. 22380 (Apr. 13, 2023) (Apr. 11, 2023) (Ex. AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-006)","stateName":"","related":[]}