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Privacy Rule:

Watch Out for State Laws That Supersede HIPAA

Published on Thu Jun 09, 2022

Compliance depends on state regulation review. Plenty of states have laws that regulate patient privacy just like the federal HIPAA law does. But what do you do if the state law is more or less stringent than HIPAA? Answer: When states’ regulations go above and beyond HIPAA, you need to follow those state rules. But when a state’s laws aren’t [...]
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