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How will California's tougher-than-HIPAA privacy laws impact U.S.?

As the recent case of records snooping at California's Kaiser Bellflower hospital demonstrates, state health data protection laws can be tougher than federal HIPAA law--and enforcement on the

Kaiser fined $250,000 for staff snooping into octuplet mom's records

As if mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman hasn't gotten enough press, now she's in the news again--this time because someone violated her rights. California's health regulators have fined Kaiser

CA sues Prime Healthcare for balance billing insured patients

California regulators have filed suit to stop growing hospital chain Prime Healthcare Services from billing commercially-insured patients for fees that insurance companies don't pay. The practice,