Texas Court Blocks Bidens 2024 HIPAA Changes Protecting Reproductive Health Data
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Contributed by: Drex DeFord
Summary
A Texas federal court has nullified the 2024 updates to the HIPAA Privacy Rule introduced by the Biden administration, which aimed to enhance protections for reproductive healthcare information against law enforcement access. This ruling allows state investigators greater access to data related to abortions and gender treatments, reverting covered entities to pre-2024 compliance requirements, while maintaining existing regulations on substance disorder treatment information. Organizations must revise their privacy notices by February 2026 to align with this decision, which stems from a finding that the Department of Health and Human Services lacked the authority to implement such protections following the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling on abortion rights.
