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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
This rule includes standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The rules below, which apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers, present standards with respect to the rights of individuals who are the subjects of this information, procedures for the exercise of...
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Interim Final Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health Coverage in the Group Market
This document contains interim final rules governing the provisions prohibiting discrimination based on a health factor for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code), the...
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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Bona Fide Wellness Programs
This proposed rule would implement and clarify the term ``bona fide wellness program'' as it relates to regulations implementing the nondiscrimination provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health Service Act, as added by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
This action corrects the effective date of the final rules adopting standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information published on December 28, 2000, in the Federal Register (65 FR 82462), resulting in a new effective date of April 14, 2001. The change in the effective date delays, by operation of law, the compliance dates...
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Interim Final Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health Coverage in the Group Market
Consistent with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled ``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7702), this action delays for 60 days the effective date for the rules entitled ``Interim Final Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health...
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposes to modify certain standards in the Rule entitled ``Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' (the ``Privacy Rule''). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and...
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (``HHS'' or ``Department'') modifies certain standards in the Rule entitled ``Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' (``Privacy Rule''). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance...
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Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards
This final rule adopts standards for the security of electronic protected health information to be implemented by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers. The use of the security standards will improve the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and otherFederal health programs and private health programs, and the...
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Civil Money Penalties: Procedures for Investigations, Imposition of Penalties, and Hearings-Extension of Expiration Date
An interim final rule establishing procedures for the imposition, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, of civil money penalties on entities that violate standards adopted by the Secretary under the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was published on April...
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Final Regulations for Health Coverage Portability for Group Health Plans and Group Health Insurance Issuers Under HIPAA Titles I & IV
This document contains final regulations governing portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health...
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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Health Coverage Portability: Tolling Certain Time Periods and Interaction With the Family and Medical Leave Act Under HIPAA Titles I and IV
These proposed rules would clarify certain portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. These rules propose to implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health Service Act enacted as...
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HIPAA Administrative Simplification; Enforcement
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is proposing rules for the imposition of civil money penalties on entities that violate rules adopted by the Secretary to implement the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-191 (HIPAA). The proposed rule would amend the...
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Final Regulations for Health Coverage Portability for Group Health Plans and Group Health Insurance Issuers Under HIPAA Titles l & IV; Correction
This document corrects final regulations that were published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78720) governing portability requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan.
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Civil Money Penalties: Procedures for Investigations, Imposition of Penalties, and Hearings-Extension of Expiration Date
An interim final rule establishing procedures for the imposition, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, of civil money penalties on entities that violate standards adopted by the Secretary under the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was published on April...
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HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Enforcement
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is adopting rules for the imposition of civil money penalties on entities that violate rules adopted by the Secretary to implement the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191 (HIPAA). The final rule amends the...
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Nondiscrimination and Wellness Programs in Health Coverage in the Group Market
This document contains final rules governing the provisions prohibiting discrimination based on a health factor for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code), the Employee...
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Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Under the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act
This document contains final rules for group health plans and health insurance issuers concerning hospital lengths of stay for mothers and newborns following childbirth, pursuant to the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 and the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997.
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Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this interim final rule with a request for comments to require notification of breaches of unsecured protected health information. Section 13402 of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of...
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HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposes to modify certain provisions of the ``Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' (Privacy Rule), issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The purpose of these proposed modifications is to implement section 105 of...
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Interim Final Rules Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Genetic Information in Health Insurance Coverage and Group Health Plans
This document contains interim final rules implementing sections 101 through 103 of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. These provisions prohibit discrimination based on genetic information in health insurance coverage and group health plans.