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Earlier this summer the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) released new guidance (“Guidance”) directed at retail pharmacies that details obligations to ensure comprehensive and nondiscriminatory access to reproductive health care services. This Guidance comes on the heels of a slew of recent legal changes, namely the Dobbs... READ MORE

On June 29, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) released a notice and guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the protection of patient information relating to reproductive health care (the “Notice”). The Notice also describes example situations involving... READ MORE