{"id":165,"date":"2013-02-25T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=165"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:45:31","slug":"new-hipaa-rules-regarding-genetic-information-affect-employers-group-health-plans-health-insurers-and-healthcare-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2013\/02\/25\/new-hipaa-rules-regarding-genetic-information-affect-employers-group-health-plans-health-insurers-and-healthcare-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"New HIPAA Rules Regarding Genetic Information Affect Employers, Group Health Plans, Health Insurers and Healthcare Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because HIPAA includes employer-sponsored group health plans under the definition of insurers, employers that sponsor plans are also affected by the GINA amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule (&#8220;the GINA amendments&#8221;). In addition, the GINA amendments will have applicability beyond the insurance industry because they draw distinctions between permissible and impermissible uses of &#8220;genetic information&#8221; in connection with the diagnosis of a medical condition. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/HIPAA_genetic_information_affect_employers_group_health_plans_health_insurers_providers_4770.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read more about how the new HIPAA rules regarding genetic information affect employers, group health plans, health insurers and healthcare providers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Duane Morris is issuing a series of <em>Alerts<\/em> on the 2013 Amendments, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/overview_2013_amendments_to_HIPAA_privacy_security_breach_notification_enforcement_rules_4734.html\" target=\"_blank\">Overview Summary<\/a> of the HIPAA Amendments. Please see the in-depth <em>Alerts<\/em> already distributed by the firm on changes under the 2013 Amendments to the definition of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/final_HIPAA_amendments_expand_HIPAA_net_4724.html\" target=\"_blank\">business associate<\/a>, changes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/new_HIPAA_breach_notification_rule_may_prove_costly_for_HIPAA-covered_entities_4728.html\" target=\"_blank\">breach notification<\/a> requirements, key details about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/HIPAA_minimum_necessary_standard_should_be_key_component_policies_and_procedures_4743.html\">minimum necessary<\/a> standard and changes to the obligation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/employers_take_note_final_HIPAA_rules_mandate_new_obligations_group_health_plans_4760.html\" target=\"_blank\">group health plans<\/a> in regards to breaches of protected health information. We will continue to issue <em>Alerts<\/em> on discrete HIPAA topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because HIPAA includes employer-sponsored group health plans under the definition of insurers, employers that sponsor plans are also affected by the GINA amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule (&#8220;the GINA amendments&#8221;). In addition, the GINA amendments will have applicability beyond the insurance industry because they draw distinctions between permissible and impermissible uses of &#8220;genetic information&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2013\/02\/25\/new-hipaa-rules-regarding-genetic-information-affect-employers-group-health-plans-health-insurers-and-healthcare-providers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New HIPAA Rules Regarding Genetic Information Affect Employers, Group Health Plans, Health Insurers and Healthcare Providers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[280,288,279,287,273,275,50,277,274,282,220,281,219,289],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-law","tag-authorization","tag-genetic-information","tag-gina","tag-group-health-plans","tag-health-information-technology","tag-health-law-2","tag-healthcare","tag-hit","tag-hitech","tag-marketing","tag-privacy","tag-protected-health-information","tag-security","tag-underwriting"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}