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Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2022
Fast-forward through the 1990s and the advent of PBMs — pharmacy benefit management companies — the intermediaries managing drug benefits for health insurance plans. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies.
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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HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 19, 2023
These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ).
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2020
More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006. More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). For Americans, voting on 3rd November in the U.S.
Compliancy Group
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
The nation’s first mental health parity law, the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA), provided that large group health plans can’t impose annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits that are less favorable than equivalent limits imposed on medical/surgical benefits.
MedTrainer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The breach occurred in 2013 when four unencrypted laptops containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of over 4 million patients were stolen from an Advocate Health administrative building. Many healthcare facilities rely on reimbursements from government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Patient privacy.
Kaiser Health News
JUNE 16, 2022
Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. And they had retiree health insurance through Con Edison. The health system is not affiliated with KHN.).
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