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The dramatic, wide-ranging privacy rules of HIPAA took effect April 14, 2003. These regulations, considered to be the most significant development in health care legislation since 1965 apply to virtually every health care provider and organization in America. It is absolutely imperative that your Advance Health Care Directive and Durable Power of Attorney for Finance as well as your Living Trust now contain very specific HIPAA compliant provisions. Most current documents DO NOT contain these provisions. Without the appropriate release authority language your Attorney-in-Fact may not be able to act on your behalf. *The foregoing report is designed solely for the purpose of providing very general and limited information on the subject matters. Readers should have their estate planning documents reviewed to determine their legal sufficiency and whether they need to be amended or replaced
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