HIPAA is a law that protects your medical information and history. Medical providers like doctors and insurance companies are beholden to HIPAA.

Late last month Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, raised eyebrows around the country when she claimed that a reporter's question about her COVID-19 vaccination status was a ...

HIPAA complaints and breaches increased from 2017 to 2021, but the agency in charge of auditing compliance said it doesn’t have the resources to handle the uptick. The HHS Office for Civil Rights, or ...

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

Since HIPAA went into effect in 2003, more than 34,000 complaints of privacy violation have been filed. Most complaints (about 80%) were resolved. Many were simply dismissed. Often, a warning was ...

Two Republican congressmen are investigating CVS over concerns that the company used confidential patient information to lobby against a Louisiana bill that would have forced it to break up its ...

In the past few years, the phrase “HIPAA violation” has been thrown around a lot, often incorrectly. People have cited the law, which protects patient health information, as a reason they can’t be ...

The preamble to the final rule implementing the privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act explicitly invokes the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. "The need ...