The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (federal); Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- HIPAA Rules; enforcement discretion
- Issued
- 2023-04-11 Apr. 11, 2023
- Effective
- 2023-04-13 (notifications expire 11:59 p.m. May 11, 2023; telehealth transition period to 11:59 p.m. Aug. 9, 2023) (read as 2023-04-13)
- End
- 2023-08-09
- In force
- Apr. 13, 2023 to Aug. 9, 2023
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- covered entities and business associates
- Functions reached
- TM telehealth
- OF administration
- Collection
- Other federal health agencies AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER
Operative words
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
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.
Retrieval noteRecites that the telehealth notification 'has been in effect since March 17, 2020', the business-associate notification 'since April 7, 2020' and the CBTS notification 'since March 13, 2020'.