HIPAA Declared Constitutional - USCA 4th

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) does not unconstitutionally delegate legislative function and that the regulations promulgated pursuant to the law are not beyond the scope of the congressional grant of authority, and thus are not impermissibly vague.In S. Carolina Med. Ass'n v. Thompson (04/25/03 - No. 02-2001) the South Carolina Medical Association, Physicians Care Network, and several individual doctors, filed suit seeking to have declared unconstitutional several provisions of HIPAA. The ...