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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 ...

Substance Use Disorder (SUD) programs and HIPAA-regulated entities seeking to streamline their privacy and security practices and workflows received welcome news from the U.S. Department of Health & ...

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 ...

Promote the portability of insurance coverage as employees moved from job to job; Increase accountability and decrease fraud and abuse in healthcare; and Improve the efficiency of the healthcare ...

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 ...

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In 1996 President Clinton signed a legislative bill titled the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The law was meant to provide portability of insurance between employers, ...

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.

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