Medical Legal Issues for Texas Paralegals
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Medical Legal Issues for Texas Paralegals

If you have been to the doctor or any healthcare provider recently, you have probably been reminded of just how carefully medical providers protect your personal health information. They give you disclosures and they make you sign forms giving them permission to collect information from you and use it only in limited ways.

Back in the 1990s, this was not the case. But in 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA for short. The Act was not passed to protect patient privacy, but it is now best known by the general public for protecting the privacy of patient health information. The privacy protections were in HIPAA were actually incidental to the Act’s primary focus of protecting people’s ability to obtain health insurance coverage. So the next time you are seen by a doctor, take a minute to appreciate how HIPAA changed—for better or worse—how healthcare providers handle your personal health information. Learn more about HIPAA and its effect on how medical records are handled during litigation at HalfMoon Education’s upcoming live webinar, Medical Legal Issues for Texas Paralegals, on Friday, December 17, 2021.

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