Health Savings Accounts offer employers and individuals an affordable new option for health insurance coverage. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have grown in popularity since Congress authorized their use in 2003. The forerunner to HSAs, Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), were first established in 1996 and had extensive restrictions that impeded their use and success. HSAs are free of those restrictions, and anyone can own one.
From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records
From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records Key Points HIPAA protects institutions, not information. Once health data leaves a covered entity for an app, vendor, or broker, federal protection ends, and Texas law leaves that gap open. The interest at stake is not only access to clinical records. It is...