The table below summarizes the continuing education requirements for license holders: For all licenses issued or renewing on and after September 1, 2015, which formerly required 30 hours of continuing education (CE) during each license period, only 24 hours of continuing education is required for each license period. Licenses expiring before September 1, 2015, will have to complete 30 hours of CE.
The final version of the HIPAA Privacy regulations were issued in December 2000, and went into effect on April 14, 2002. Normally, rules go into effect 60 days after publication in the Congressional Record. Due to a glitch, the rules did not go into effect until April 14th instead of in February of 2001.A two-year grace period was included; enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rules begins on April 14, 2003. Federal law that makes a number of changes that have the goal of allowing persons to qualify immediately for comparable health insurance coverage when they change their employment relationships.
Until Congress passed HIPAA in 1996, personal health information was protected by a patchwork of federal and state laws. Patients' health information could be distributed without their consent for reasons having nothing to do with their medical treatment or health care reimbursement. The HIPAA regulation provides the first comprehensive federal protection for the privacy of individually identifiable health information.