The Office of Special Disability Programs (OSDP) will abide by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines. HIPAA is a federal law that sets additional standards to protect the confidentiality of individually identifiable health information. Individually identifiable health information is information that identifies or could be used to identify an individual and that relates to the:
* Past, present, or future physical mental health or condition of the individual;
* Provision of health care to the individual; or
* Past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual.
32 Miss. Code. R. 1.5