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 ...
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 HITECH Act is a law that aims to expand the use of electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States. (HITECH stands for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health.) There ...
On January 6, 2020, the California State Senate’s Health Committee unanimously approved California AB 713, a bill that would amend the California Consumer Privacy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.