HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996, the establishment of federal standards for safeguarding PHI was not one of the primary objectives. What is HIPAA? What is HIPAA Title II?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college.

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Health Insurance Public Health Governance 96

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Twice as many White people (15%) than Black people (7%) rated “government/politics/election-related” concerns as the third-ranking worry. In this essay, I re-visited the 2002 report from the Institutes of Medicine (IOM), Unequal Treatment , which laid out racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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COVID-19 Public Health Governance Health Insurance 86

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

where workers have traded off wage growth for health care cost growth in companies that have covered health insurance. Job growth in the expanding gig economy has been, statistically, impressive — but those jobs largely aren’t accompanied by benefit packages and, especially, health insurance coverage.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

For example: Had the health insurance industry been allowed to continue operating as it did prior to HIPAA, tens of millions of Americans would be excluded from health plan benefits. Had the momentum to improve health care not been given a kickstart by HIPAA, subsequent health care initiatives may never have happened.

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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 28, 2023

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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FDA Doctors Malpractice COVID-19 52

Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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FDA Doctors Malpractice COVID-19 59