Iowa HIPAA Statutory Preemption Report

The HIPAA Privacy Rule was adopted in addition to the myriad of state laws and rules affecting confidentiality of health care information (generally defined as protected health information (PHI) under the HIPAA Privacy Rule). The Privacy Rule sets forth a process for determining in cases of conflict between a HIPAA Privacy requirement and state law, which law should prevail and govern. A voluntary workgroup of Iowa attorneys well-versed in health law conducted a HIPAA preemption analysis on Iowa law.

Please note: The report only addresses statutory law and not regulations. However, the workgroup subsequently conducted a review of supporting regulations and identified no HIPAA preemption issues. Any person with a regulatory preemption question is best advised to contact that agency of state government with the rule that is the subject of the preemption question.

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