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Know What You Owe: HIPAA and Third-Party Requests for Patient Records in Hospice

2026-07-15 · 16:38 UTC ·Husch Blackwell ·0 min read

Brief

Husch Blackwell attorneys Bryan Nowicki and Taylor Crossley deliver a practical tutorial for hospice providers (video published 2026-07-15) explaining HIPAA’s rules for responding to subpoenas and other third‑party requests, differentiating types of legal demands, highlighting interactions with state privacy statutes, and offering steps to verify legal process, minimize disclosures, and avoid common compliance errors.

Why it matters

Presenters Bryan Nowicki and Taylor Crossley (Husch Blackwell) on 2026-07-15 outline HIPAA’s legal process framework for disclosures, emphasizing when a subpoena, court order, or other legal demand permits disclosure without patient authorization.

Key details

  • They identify common third‑party demands hospice providers face (civil subpoenas, criminal subpoenas, administrative requests) and stress checking state privacy laws and procedural defects before releasing records to avoid compliance pitfalls.
Source evidence

Hospice providers are no strangers to sensitive patient situations, but a subpoena or other third-party request for patient records can quickly raise complex legal and compliance challenges. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Bryan Nowicki (https://www.huschblackwell.com/professionals/bryan-nowicki) and Taylor Crossley (https://www.huschblackwell.com/professionals/taylor-crossley) provide a practical roadmap for navigating those requests. They discuss the HIPAA framework governing legal process disclosures, the types of demands hospice providers often encounter, and how state privacy laws can affect the analysis—and offer guidance for avoiding common compliance pitfalls when responding to requests for patient information.

Channel: Husch Blackwell
Published: 2026-07-15
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vA8dHyuuWE