If a representative is signing the form, the relationship with the patient must be detailed along with a description of the ...

HIPAA is a federal law that created national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being shared ...

Hospitals by order of the Texas governor have to quarterly issue reports to the state on the immigration status of patients seeking care at facilities. According to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ...

Patients are not required to answer the question, however. Public hospitals in Texas will now be required to ask patients if they are in the U.S. legally and keep a record of the funds spent on ...

Austin, Texas (AP) – Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the US legally starting Friday. The new policy stems from an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, and it escalates the ...

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Hospitals across Texas will soon have to ask patients seeking care for their citizenship status as part of an executive order signed off by the governor. The new order ...

Russia is forming assault units for the war in Ukraine by recruiting convicted individuals infected with hepatitis B and C, as reported by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate ...

Around 100 people were arrested, many of them medical staff. Now, only a few doctors remain to care for hundreds of patients and in desperate conditions. The wounded lie on thin mattresses ...

HIPAA Compliance is the adherence to standards established to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge. It plays a pivotal role in ...