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625 HIPAA Privacy Training
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Security Rule Coverage

The Security Rule covers health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers transmitting electronic health information.

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The Security Rule covers health plans, clearinghouses, and health care providers.

Covered entities refer to individual and group plans involved in funding or providing medical care. These health plans include:

  • Health, dental, and vision insurers
  • Prescription drug insurers
  • Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)
  • Government programs: Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare+Choice, and Medicare supplement insurers
  • Long-term care insurers (but not nursing home fixed-indemnity policies)

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

1-4. The Security Rule applies to health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and any health care provider who transmits health information _____.