April 23, 2024 - UPDATE 4/23/2024 - This article has been updated to reflect new information about the Change Healthcare cyberattack.   UHG has not yet provided a formal breach notification to HHS following the cyberattack. In an April 22 update, UHG stated that the review of impacted data is "likely to take several months of continued analysis...

April 23, 2024 - The Biden-Harris administration, through HHS, issued a final rule to bolster patient privacy for those seeking and administering lawful reproductive healthcare. Entitled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, the rule prohibits the disclosure of protected health information (PHI) when it is sought to hold patients or...

April 17, 2024 - Lawmakers had many questions for UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the parent of Change Healthcare, at a March 16 House subcommittee hearing about the cyberattack that halted claims payments and disrupted operations across the US healthcare sector. However, no UHG representatives were present at the hearing, leaving many questions unanswered and sparking...

April 17, 2024 - Under a proposed order from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), online mental healthcare platform Cerebral will be restricted from disclosing consumers’ personal health information to third parties for advertising purposes and from misrepresenting its privacy and data security practices. Cerebral will also be required to provide customers...