New Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations are causing healthcare providers to look for guidance on how they will affect business, Reuters reports. Nixon Peabody’s Linn Freedman says provisions of particular concern are those that extend the scope of HIPAA to business associates, allow patients to withhold information from their health plan by paying for services in full and assume incidents to be breaches until proven otherwise by providers. The regulations take effect March 26, and providers have until September 23 to comply.
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