Office of the Secretary March 10, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) is extending the comment period for the proposed rule entitled ``Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the Standards for the Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act),'' published in the Federal Register on January 21, 2021. The comment period for the proposed rule, which would end March 22, 2021, is extended to May 6, 2021.