Insurance Tip for the Week: Learn About the Top Three Most Common HIPAA Privacy Exceptions

After understanding HIPAA's definition and how it protects a patient's privacy one may be interested in learning about HIPAA's privacy exceptions. HIPAA's privacy exceptions give health care providers and others who are required to follow HIPAA an exception in some areas where they don't have to follow the rules outlined by the HIPAA law.

It is important for a patient to know about these HIPAA privacy exceptions so they can be aware of what information about them may be legally disclosed without the HIPAA protection.