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...reddening trauma of a teenage trip to the dermatologist ("The doctor's ready for your pimples, now, dear.")? If a new law is successful, those excruciating moments are a thing of the past. As of April 14th, we're all protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - a law designed to shield medical information from the prying eyes of individuals and companies...
...Even as the arguments over HIPAA continue, every doctor's office in the country is changing its policies on what its patients can see, and how much of that information is made public. Here are a few things you should know about the new laws before you make your next doctor's appointment...
...will my visit to the doctor be changed by HIPAA? You probably won't notice a huge difference - you'll still sign your name when you come in the door, and your name will be called when it's time for you to see the doctor. But you won't write down the reason for your appointment, and your chart, which is slipped into a pocket on the outside of the exam room door, will face inward to keep anyone in the hallway from reading...
...protect the interests of state residents. As it stands, there are some 5.2 million non-elderly state residents who are without any protection from discriminatory use of genetic information in the issue and rating of health insurance. Even though the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) prevents the use of genetic information in issue of group health insurance policies, nothing in HIPAA prevents the company from using such information to increase a group's rate and price people out of coverage; furthermore, HIPAA is powerless in the individual and self-insured insurance markets...