Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Kennedy-Kassenbaum Bill Privacy A bill enacted by Congress in 1996 which established a comprehensive and uniform federal standard for ensuring privacy of genetic information; HIPAA broadens the scope of existing fraud and abuse provisions, and ↑ penalties for fraud violations by health care providers. See Fraud, Rebundling, Unbundling, Upcoding.

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