Health Care Reform Advisory: How ACOs Will Use and Disclose Protected Health Information While Complying with HIPAA
4/27/2011
Mintz Levin is publishing a series of advisories to assist the health care industry in understanding and responding to the proposed regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) recently published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Read Mintz Levin’s previous ACO advisories.
This advisory discusses proposed uses and disclosures of beneficiary data constituting protected health information (PHI), which is protected by the privacy regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
