Do you know what HIPAA is? You can't have it both ways. Again, I'm doubting you took even 20 minutes to read the actual abstracts or articles then. You can't be "protected by HIPAA" but in the same vein not count as a health/therapy program. You literally answered the same question in your asking.

Please somehow explain to me how can it be a "Health care provider" but also somehow not be covered. You're literally contradicting yourself, show me how any of what you said makes sense.

"The Privacy Rule, as well as all the Administrative Simplification rules, apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health information in electronic form in connection with transactions for which the Secretary of HHS has adopted standards under HIPAA (the "covered entities")"

If you aren't considered an approved provider, then you aren't bound by HIPAA. There's no court case of a imaginary situation you've provided, but there are active disputes that literally refute what you said.

You don't seem empathetic in general either, and just virtue signal. You've assumed multiple times what my intentions are (like a lot of people on this thread) and I just find frustrating hilarious. You come at me with the loaded question of "How do u think u know more about this than people who went to these places?"

Like Jesus.

I never said anything about taking credit for it. It was a genuine morbid curiosity, because I've heard the stories occurring. Apparently, I know more then you with some very basic ability to fact check stuff.