October 18, 2016 1 min read

CFA Calls on FCC to Clarify Rules for Making Robocalls Related to Healthcare

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Consumer Federation of America, alongside other privacy advocacy groups, is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure that the Petition from Anthem, Inc. which seeks to affirm that consent provided to one health care entity to receive telephone calls be considered applicable to another health care entity as long as the two are related based on the applicability of the HIPAA. However, the Petition as written does not explicitly bar telemarketing calls in this context. Therefore, if the FCC decides to grant the petition, it should add clarifying language to the amendment in order to explicitly bar telemarketing calls.

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