Fierce Healthcare September 26, 2019
Efforts to establish a national patient identifier hit another major snag as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, fights to prevent federal funding for a unique patient identifier.
Paul, who is a physician, said in a statement that the establishment of a national patient ID would jeopardize patient privacy by “centralizing some of Americans’ most personal information.” The senator introduced legislation on Wednesday, called the National Patient Identifier Repeal Act of 2019, that would repeal the original authority to create the ID under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Former Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, Sen. Paul’s father, introduced language to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill in 1998 that put the original ban in place. HIPAA initially required the creation of...
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