Stamford specialty insurer RVI Group has hired James Bedard as its new chief financial officer, the company announced. Bedard is well-known in the Greater Hartford business community having spent more than a decade in senior-level roles at health insurer UnitedHealthcare, including most recently as an M&A lead and divisional chief financial officer.
President Biden fired the opening shots of the battle over spending and taxes that will consume Capitol Hill this year when he proposed on Tuesday a 5% Medicare surtax on people who earn more than $400,000 a year.
HIPAA imposes some controls on the collection, use, and distribution of 'protected health information' by covered entities, such as healthcare providers, it is narrowly scoped and leaves a vast ocean of health data unprotected.