HIPAA violations are a serious matter, leaving your dental practice feeling vulnerable. A breach of HIPAA laws can result in thousands of dollars in fines and is potentially punishable with jail time.

Part 1 of this series discussed five important requirements of HIPAA compliance. Part 2 discusses some simple steps your practice can take to address these issues. As it is likely that U.S. Department ...

Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally published the long-awaited final rule amending the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and the Health ...

Patient record requests can be a significant administrative burden for health care providers. An OCR enforcement initiative and a new federal law give providers more reason to get this process right.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No, HIPAA protects only health care information that is held by specific kinds of health care providers. For example, health care ...

Margaret Riley is a law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in health law. She spends a lot of time teaching future lawyers and medical professionals how medical privacy laws work.

When President Trump was hospitalized with COVID-19, his doctor pointed to “HIPAA rules and regulations” as the reason he couldn’t speak more freely about Trump’s condition. HIPAA is a medical privacy ...