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 & ...

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) of 1996 was enacted by the U.S. Congress to regulate the protection of private health information for ...

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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 ...