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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed rule that would modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by allowing health care providers to make certain disclosures to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).  The NICS aims to keep guns from being sold to those…

Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.

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All commercial website and online service providers need to comply with the requirements of the California Online Privacy Protection Act.  California recently issued guidance on how mobile application developers and others can comply with those requirements at the design stage in its guide entitled, "Privacy On the Go…

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued its medical records fees for 2013.  The announcement is attached; it provides as follows:

                                                           

                                                                                               Not to Exceed

 

Amount charged per page for pages 1-20                                  $  1.42

 

Amount charged per page for pages 21-60                                $  1.05

 

Amount charged per …

Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq.

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In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, more than one-hundred physicians’ groups have urged the elimination of the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, asserting that the formula is an impediment to successful health care delivery and payment reforms that can improve the quality of patient care while…

Lee Kim, attorney in the health law practice group of Tucker Arensberg, P.C., was recently featured in a Pittsburgh Business Times article entitled, "Growing number of carriers offering companies cybersecurity insurance."

Link to the article: www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/10/05/growing-number-of-carriers-offering.html.

Michael A. Cassidy, JD, CHC, shareholder and director of Tucker Arensberg, P.C. and Chair of the Health Law Practice Group, was recently featured in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article entitled "Patients may suffer as doctors switch practices, health systems."

Link to the article: www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/patients-may-suffer-as-doctors-switch-practices-health-systems-654855/.

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