Insurers and insurance brokers could face fines over what seem to be strange, or even unfair, health privacy and data security cases, and that's how the system works.
Stephen Serfass, a partner in the Philadelphia office of Drinker Biddle & Reath, said the covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) health information rules need to learn how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights sees the rules.
When it comes to deciding how reasonable OCR HIPAA enforcement is, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Serfass said in an interview.
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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.
