At the outset, it is important for covered entities (providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses) and their business associates (a wide variety of health care service providers) to ...

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 ...

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 ...