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Bush Administration Moves to Relieve HIPAA Burden


Bush Administration Moves to Relieve HIPAA Burden
Responding to the healthcare industry's concern that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy standard unduly burdens providers with yet another level of administrative tasks, the Bush Administration moved to simplify the regulation late last month. Unfortunately, the proposed changes do not seem to have simplified anything so far. Rather, says Scott A. Edelstein, JD, MPA, with the Los Angeles office of the law firm of McDermott, Will

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