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United States federal law concerning health information
There is no federal law or constitutional provision that explicitly requires a U.S. president or a presidential candidate to release their personal medical records to the public; longstanding practice...
Republicans propose a mix of market-oriented reforms, health savings account expansions, and structural changes to Medicaid and entitlements as alternatives to extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) prem...
Short-term health plans and many association health plans (AHPs) in 2025 can and often do exclude coverage for preexisting conditions because they are not regulated like ACA “major medical” plans; how...
New York law can bar people from possessing firearms when mental-health-related findings are reported to authorities — reports under Mental Hygiene Law §9.46 and the SAFE Act have placed tens of thous...
Federal law does not set a uniform rule that governs public access to autopsy reports for all states; instead, access and disclosure are largely governed by state statutes and practices, with 26 state...
The available analyses show the White House has forcing disclosure of a sitting president’s medical records; releases are controlled primarily by the president and the White House Physician, producing...
Public reporting and government materials confirm that some encrypted email and secure‑mail services are architected so providers can access message content and therefore can—and do—comply with lawful...
Next-of-kin claims and statutory privacy rules create a patchwork that often limits public access to death-investigation and post‑mortem medical records: federal HIPAA treats deceased patients’ health...
Emergency rooms are legally required to provide stabilizing emergency medical care to anyone regardless of immigration status, and there is under prevailing law and privacy rules. Recent legislative p...
Since late 2024 states including Texas and Florida began requiring hospitals that receive Medicaid or CHIP funding to collect and report patients’ immigration status, producing immediate changes to in...
State statutes that compel hospitals to collect or report patients’ immigration status sit on top of — and sometimes in tension with — the federal HIPAA Privacy Rule: HIPAA creates a federal floor pro...
Federal law requires Medicare-participating hospitals to medically screen and stabilize anyone who comes to an emergency department with an emergency condition, regardless of immigration status or abi...
Commercial hearing‑aid products have appeared on television and in consumer-facing segments, but the available reporting does not quantify how often manufacturers are featured specifically on daytime ...
When a doctor’s name, photo or title is lifted into a fraudulent health advertisement, a mix of administrative complaints, federal and state enforcement actions, and civil lawsuits are the primary pat...
Available public reporting shows systemic gaps in sharing individual participant data (IPD) for many commercially developed medicines — for example, roughly half of participant‑level datasets that sup...
Federal statutes and program rules—most notably the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplace regulations and related federal benefit laws—define when immigration status must be collected to determine eligibi...
Social‑media ad ecosystems enable fake medical endorsements by combining highly targeted paid placements, influencer marketing norms, and platform ad formats that favor short, persuasive claims—while ...
Israel has moved its privacy rules decisively toward European-style protections: Amendment 13 to the Protection of Privacy Law raises genetic data into an “especially sensitive” category, tightens con...
Cloud providers and customers routinely retain audit and access logs tied to object storage — metadata about who accessed what, when, from where, and with what result — because those logs are essentia...
Presidential medical privacy is grounded in ordinary patient privacy law — chiefly HIPAA — but those protections sit alongside special exceptions, constitutional mechanisms, and long-standing politica...