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Privacy rules get upgrade; Buyers, comp insurers welcome revisions.(Brief Article)
Business Insurance, August, 2002 by Hofmann, Mark A.
WASHINGTON-Risk managers and workers compensation insurers generally like new the medical records privacy regulations-as far as they go. But the new regulations, published by the Department of Health and Human Services in the Aug. 14 Federal Register, don't go as far as risk managers and underwriters would like.
That's because the rule will not provide an absolute carve-out for workers compensation, as had been sought by insurers and employers. Instead, the rule's preamble says that HHS does not intend to interfere with the operation of the state-based workers comp system. Still, the regulations appear much closer to what employers sought than the rule initially promulgated in late 2000. ``Based on what we've seen in this final version, the administration...
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