Home Health & Hospice Week

Labs' HIPAA Exemptions Nixed In Recent Rule

Having trouble getting certain lab reports from your patients’ doctors? Now you have a new option. A final rule has eliminated the HIPAA exemption for laboratories in providing patients access to their lab reports, so that patients or their designated representative can gain direct access to the patient’s completed laboratory test reports. The Department of Health and Human Services published [...]
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