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and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
rights and protections for participants and beneficiaries in group health plans. Understanding this amendment is important to your decisions about future health coverage. HIPAA contains protections both for health coverage offered in connection with employment (group health plans) and for individual insurance policies sold by insurance companies (individual policies).
family member's employment-based plan, HIPAA includes protections for coverage under group health plans that:
* Prohibit discrimination against employees and dependents based on their health status * Allow a special opportunity to enroll in a new plan to individuals in certain circumstances
protections for individual policies that:
qualify * Guarantee renewability of individual policies Posting and viewing of the information on this website is not intended to constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Disclaimer. |



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