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The Final Rule included several additions and clarifications to the HIPAA definition of BA. Identifying persons and entities which meet the definition of BA is important because the Final Rule ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was enacted by the U.S. Congress to regulate the protection of private health information for ...

Nursing home residents’ spouses and attorneys-in-fact do not necessarily meet the definition of “personal representatives” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, so providers ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule leads to uncertainty about how to make text messaging policy decisions, according to an article in the American Journal of ...

When it comes to protecting health data, physicians tend to focus on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), promulgated and enforced by the Department of Health and Human ...

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury recently issued proposed regulations that expand and clarify the categories of benefits that qualify as excepted benefits.

With the first deadline to implement new medical record regulations less than a year away, bioscience companies should be taking a hard look at whether these complicated federal mandates will affect ...