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How policymakers could tweak HIPAA to better protect abortion records

STAT

And that is because HIPAA privacy protections weren’t prepared for this moment,” said Rep. referring to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which protects patient medical records. “I think it’s important to know that right now, your health records aren’t necessarily protected.

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Biden administration finalizes abortion privacy protections

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The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday released a final rule that would put abortion services under the same federal privacy protections as other health care data covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. Read the rest…

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5 HIPAA Compliance Tips For Healthcare Professionals

Pharma Mirror

Healthcare professionals who comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will benefit by removing the risk of breaching the HIPAA rules. These are just 5 benefits among many advantages of complying with the HIPAA Rules. Their patients would feel secure with them.

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How to write a health insurance appeal letter

The Checkup by Singlecare

Meanwhile, the radiologist’s office contacts your insurance to get the service approved. Your insurance provider decided to deny the claim, which means you can’t have the scan. Or, worst-case scenario, you’ve already gotten it and your insurance denied the claim after the fact. What is an insurance appeal letter?

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Patient-Centric Marketing in the Life Science Industry: Putting the Focus on Patient Needs

Pharma Mirror

Compliance with complex laws and regulations, like Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) Rules or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), can be quite daunting. And it is not hard to see why.

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Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023

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That’s more than double recent counts, mostly spurred by a surge in hacking and ransomware attacks on health care groups regulated by HIPAA. As many as 116 million people were hit by large health data breaches this year, according to records from the HHS Office for Civil Rights as of December 21. Read the rest…

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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

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Open protocol, simply put, is a digital language that facilitates electronic transactions among prescribers, pharmacies, patient support vendors, data aggregators, insurers, and other stakeholders in the specialty pharmaceutical patient journey. You may ask: Can an open protocol be HIPAA compliant?

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