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 ...

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 ...

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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.