In May 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule implementing the nondiscrimination section of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). This Client Alert (link above), authored by Frank Kirschbaum and William Stewart of the Wyrick Robbins Healthcare Practice Group, summarizes the key points of both the ACA section and the implementing provisions of the OCR rule and outlines the tasks that should be taken by health care providers to ensure compliance.