Plain answers
HIPAA questions, answered from the regulation itself
Most of what gets written about HIPAA is repeated rather than read. These pages quote the text, link every citation to the eCFR or the statute so you can check it, and carry the date the source was last fetched. Where the law is genuinely unsettled, they say so instead of picking the tidier answer.
Is there an official HIPAA certification?
No government body issues, accredits, or endorses one. What the rules require instead is documented workforce training, and this explains what auditors actually ask to see.
What HIPAA requires for training, quoted from the regulation
The whole obligation is two provisions. Both are quoted in full here, along with what the text does not contain — no hour count, no syllabus, and no annual deadline.
What a HIPAA violation costs, and why the numbers disagree
The current adjusted civil penalty figures, how a single lapse becomes many violations, and the unresolved gap between the statute, the regulation, and how HHS says it will enforce.
HIPAA vs. 42 CFR Part 2
Substance use disorder records sit under a second, stricter federal confidentiality rule. This covers where the two regimes differ and which one governs what.
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