Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) have proliferated in recent years, despite the fact that many commonly-prescribed medications have lost patent protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has attempted to eliminate
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HIPAA Compliance Trends for 2014
My partner Elizabeth Litten and I were interviewed by Marla Durben Hirsch for her Medical Practice Compliance Alert article “HIPAA, ICD-10 Among 6 Compliance Trends That Will Affect You in …
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Avoiding a HIPAA Identity Crisis in 2014
Who you are makes a big difference in how and whether you must protect individually identifiable health information under HIPAA. As we near the end of 2013, I look back…
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Embarrassing Fact: Few Seem to Understand HIPAA or the ACA (at least when it comes to individual health coverage to be purchased on an Exchange)
I read a recent Forbes.com post by Rick Ungar (“Claims That Obamacare Website Violates Health Privacy Reveals Embarrassing Fact – GOP Does Not Understand HIPAA or Obamacare”) that revealed a…
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