The business associate brain teaser: a look at problems involving the business associate regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

Ms. Heitzman addresses in her article the impact of the Administration Simplification statute of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 on the protection of health information by third parties to health care transactions. These regulations were enacted, in part, to increase consumers' trust in the health care system.