Not admitted · Vague or promotional
Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 12 Mar 2023 · owen-0346
Quote
Vague or promotional
“And there are some carveouts for covered entities under HIPAA, but at least as a company that began as a direct-to-consumer model company, it won’t benefit from any of those plausible exceptions.”
HHS allows marketing by covered entities with patient authorization and with some carve-outs. The author asserts BetterHelp, which began as a direct-to-consumer company, will not benefit from those exceptions, and that once it sold into health plans via Teladoc (acquired 2015) it became a covered entity.
No entity, observable event, benchmark or threshold can be written from the text and its immediate context. Slogans ('game changer', 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity', 'favourite stock') and quantifiers with no countable set ('more', 'first', 'all') without a defined set.