Over a dozen states are suing the Biden administration over federal protections it implemented on women’s abortion records.
A US Department of Health and Human Services rule issued last year reading the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act—or HIPAA—as protecting reproductive services records from law enforcement “will hamper States’ ability to gather information critical to policing serious misconduct like Medicaid billing fraud, child and elder abuse, and insurance-related malfeasance,” the lawsuit said.
Tennessee, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio and others filed the lawsuit Friday, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, claiming HIPAA maintains state powers to investigate. ...