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> GoodRx displayed a seal at the bottom of its telehealth services homepage falsely suggesting to consumers that it complied with the Health Insurance Portabili
by rchaud 4y ago
> GoodRx displayed a seal at the bottom of its telehealth services homepage falsely suggesting to consumers that it complied with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
$900m in funding[0] and their business practices are straight out of a fly-by-night MLM brand.
[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goodrx https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goodrx
- olliej 4y agoThey complied by afaict not being a covered entity. You could make a site that lets people log their health issues, but allow _anyone_ to access that data and not be violating HIPPA. HIPPA is not a medical privacy bill.
- mulmen 4y agoHIPPA doesn’t exist. HIPPA is a mistaken acronym that adds the p-for-privacy. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) - a real 1996 law. HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) - not a thing.
- alistairSH 4y agoBut, apparently, they claimed there were compliant. So, fraud, or at least super-sketchy.
- SkyPuncher 4y agoThere's such thing as a hybrid-entity. I had looked into it for a prior HealthTech company. Essentially, they can remain "HIPAA compliant" by segmenting their HIPAA and non-HIPAA business units.
- rchaud 4y agoIf this were true, I imagine they would have brought this up before the FTC fined them. Just went on their site now, no mention of this hybrid entity structure.
- SkyPuncher 4y agoIt looks like the FTC is actually alleging that they misrepresented their status as a HIPAA covered entity.
- aj7 4y agoUtter nonsense. I’ve saved thousands with them. I used to have to keep Excel spreadsheets for prescription prices. And that’s AFTER I realized that pharma benefits (including yours) and Medicare Part D were utter bullshit (I’m NOT kidding. Words chosen carefully.), and the trick was to buy drugs, over-the-counter, for cash, on the open market. (Imagine that being “a trick.” Imagine my surprise when my prescription OTC in cash was cheaper than Optum-UHC’s pharmacy “benefit.”) GoodRx makes the entire process a few iPhone clicks.