Margaret Young Levi is a seasoned attorney who advises health care organizations on data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance issues critical to patient care and day to day operations.
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By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
UKG, Inc., a company that provides payroll support services known as KRONOS for many U.S. companies, began notifying its customers on December 12, 2021, that the KRONOS Private Cloud (KPC) had been attacked by ransomware. The KPC products include Workforce Central, TeleStaff, Healthcare Extensions and Banking ...
By: Margaret Young Levi
On November 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the government from enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all covered contracts in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. As we previously reported ...
By: Margaret Young Levi
As we previously reported, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule on November 5, 2021 that requires nearly every employee, volunteer, and contractor working at 15 categories of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare facilities to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4 ...
By: Margaret Young Levi
On September 30, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued welcome guidance concerning when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) applies to disclosures and requests for information about whether a person has received a COVID-19 vaccine—and when it does not apply.
The ...
By Margaret Y. Levi
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has issued guidance concerning how the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision recognizing same-sex marriages may affect certain provisions relating to “family members” in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...