HIPAA Compliance and Prospective and Existing Clients

Professional Employer Organizations ("PEOs") often encounter health information pertaining to the employees of prospective clients, or to their co-employees. This article explores how HIPAA's new privacy rules impact PEOs both in the client in-take process, and after the PEO has become a co-employer.

This article appeared in the September 2003 issue of PEO Insider Magazine.