With HIPAA, Congress has legislated an area of healthcare that they had not legislated before, that of __________

a. privacy
b. information
c. insurance
d. professionalism


a. privacy
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Correct: Correct!
Incorrect: They are not regulating information, but privacy.
Incorrect: Many insurance laws existed before HIPAA.
Incorrect: The federal government does not regulate professionalism.

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