C.M.S. has issued a short statement identifying that the new ICD-10 start date is October 1, 2015. According to C.M.S., it expects HHS “to release an informational rule in the near future that will include a new compliance date that would require the use of ICD-10 beginning Oct. 1, 2015.” Until then, HIPAA-covered entities
HIPAA and Pre-emption of State Law
By Paul Drey on
Posted in Electronic Health Records, HIPAA
Courts across the country have routinely decided that HIPAA does not create or authorize a private right of action. [See Doe v. Board of Trs. of Univ. of Ill., 429 F. Supp.2d 930, 944 (N.D. Ill. 2006); Slue v. New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 409 F. Supp.2d 349, 373 (S.D.N.Y. 2006); See about 8th…