Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule - HHS. gov Statutory and Regulatory Background The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, was enacted on August 21, 1996 Sections 261 through 264 of HIPAA require the Secretary of HHS to publicize standards for the electronic exchange, privacy and security of health information
About the Affordable Care Act | HHS. gov The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act or “ACA” for short, is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010
HITECH Act Enforcement Interim Final Rule - HHS. gov The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009, to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology Subtitle D of the HITECH Act addresses the privacy and security concerns associated with the electronic transmission of
What is the Affordable Care Act? - HHS. gov The “Affordable Care Act” (ACA) is the name for the comprehensive health care reform law (passed in 2010) and its amendments The law addresses health insurance coverage, health care costs, and preventive care The law was enacted in two parts:
IHS Testimony on FY 2025 Budget - HHS. gov On March 11, 2024, the White House released the President’s FY 2025 Budget, which builds on the historic enactment of advance appropriations for the IHS by taking a two-pronged approach In FY 2025, the Budget proposes to fund all IHS accounts (other than the Special Diabetes Program for Indians) as discretionary, building on the advance appropriations already enacted Beginning in FY 2026
HHS OIG Fiscal Year 2026 Justification of Estimates for Congress Budget Request OIG’s FY 2026 request for Medicare and Medicaid oversight is $108 7 million, in addition to the $249 7 million HHS OIG expects to receive in mandatory funding for Medicare and Medicaid oversight, which is an increase of $6 1 million above the FY 2025 Enacted Level and an estimated $9 million in HCFAC collections
Fiscal Year 2026 Budget in Brief - HHS. gov The Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 President’s Budget supports missing piece in the American health system—primary the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) care, maternal and child health, mental health, mission to promote the health and well-being of all substance use prevention and treatment, Americans HHS proposes $94 7 billion in discretionary environmental health, HIV AIDS