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Article: Privacy tops HIAA state list.(Health Insurance Association of America)(Brief Article)
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- January 22, 2001
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WASHINGTON--Of the various health insurance-related issues that state legislatures will confront this year, privacy appears to be the most pervasive, according to the Health Insurance Assn. of America.
Although medical records privacy has been an ongoing legislative issue, the enactment last year of Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the financial services modernization act, which also addresses privacy, will lead to activity in ``nearly every state,'' according to HIAA, which last week released its annual legislative forecast.
States that currently lack medical records privacy laws are ``looking at new models from the National Assn. of Insurance Commissioners and the ...