Health carriers are supposed to start complying with updated HIPAA privacy rules Monday.
The new privacy regulations — based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 – officially took effect March 26, but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave health insurers and health care providers six months to meet the new privacy and data security standards.
Agents and other "business associates" of health insurers will have up to a year to shift to contracts that reflect the new rules.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
