HHS Publishes Final HIPAA II Regulations
On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Final Rule implementing sweeping changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This “Omnibus” Rule combines four different rulemakings and makes final a number of long-awaited proposed changes to the HIPAA regulations. The bulk of the changes concerning the ambulance industry center around regulations proposed under the Health Information Technology for Economic and...