The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued their final rule of Section 1557 to improve health equity under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Under this rule, all covered entities are required to post a notice of consumer civil rights. You have been identified as a covered entity and are therefore required to post a notice of consumer civil rights.

The final rule requires all covered entities to post a notice of consumer civil rights; covered entities with 15 or more employees are also required to have a civil rights grievance procedure and an employee designated to coordinate compliance. Under a new requirement, covered entities are required to post information telling consumers about their rights and telling consumers with disabilities and consumers with limited English proficiency (LEP) about the right to receive communication assistance. They are also required to post taglines in the top 15 languages spoken by individuals with LEP in the states in which the covered entity operates, advising consumers of the availability of free language assistance services.

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