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Health Care & Hospital Law

Oct. 26, 2013

Court limits actions under medical privacy act

The opinion should come as a relief to medical providers, health care plans, pharmaceutical companies and associated contractors. By Michael Maddigan and Michael Reynolds


By Michael Maddigan and Michael Reynolds


Over the past several years, California's Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) has been a siren of increasing allure to the plaintiffs' class action bar and a source of mounting concern to medical providers, health care plans, pharmaceutical companies and their business partners who deal with confidential medical information. The CMIA permits individuals whose medical information has been released wron...

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