Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
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Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 compliance,
an Information Technology (IT) perspective
by: Bruce W. Garrett, CEO, ARCHIVE-CD, LLC
CompTIA Solution Provider Access - July Issue
The Act, in its original
intent, was created to "improve portability and continuity
of health insurance coverage in the group and individual
markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance
and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical
savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services
and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance,
and for other purposes." To meet these expectations
HIPAA evolved into several parts: the Privacy Rule, HIPAA
Statute, the Security Rule, and Identifier Standards.
HIPAA Privacy Rule: Disclosures for
Emergency Preparedness -
A Decision Tool
Emergency preparedness and recovery planners
are interested in the availability of information they
need to serve people in the event of an emergency. For example,
planners seek to meet the special needs of the elderly or
persons with disabilities in the event of an evacuation.
Read More. . .
The Secretary of Health and Human
Services has delegated to the Director of OCR the authority to
issue subpoenas in investigations of alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and of the Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Act of 2005. Notice of this delegation was published
in the Federal Register on April 16, 2007, and may be found at
the GPO Access website Federal Register links:
/2007/pdf/07-1872.pdf (PDF); and
/2007/07-1872.htm (HTML).
HHS Launches New Web site on HIPAA Privacy
Compliance and Enforcement Read More. . .
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HIPAA Information
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Business Associate Agreement
MS
Word (49 KB)
PDF (167
KB) |
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Business Associate Contract
MS Word
(41 KB)
PDF (114
KB) |
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Office for Civil Rights.
Business Associate Contract |
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Access Request
MS Word (46
KB) PDF
(149 KB) |
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Communications Request
MS Word (40 KB)
PDF (118 KB)
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HIPAA Consent
(Sample)
MS Word (14 KB)
PDF (42 KB)
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HIPAA Notice
(Sample)
MS Word (61 KB)
PDF (474 KB)
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Identity & Authority Verification
MS Word (32
KB) PDF
(96 KB) |
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Other
HIPAA Reference Sites
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CMS
-HIPAA Medical Privacy -
National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information
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Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
For implementing various unrelated provisions
of HIPAA, therefore HIPAA may mean different things to different
people. |
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The Accredited Standards
Committee X12 of the American National Standards Institute
The Accredited Standards Committee
X12 of the American National Standards Institute has launched a
Web site to provide interpretation of HIPAA transactions implementation
guides. The site enables the submission of questions to experts
in the X12N insurance subcommittee, which created most of the standardized
transactions. The Web site also links to a repository of questions
and answers |
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HHS - Office
for Civil Rights - HIPAA
Office for Civil Rights - HIPAA. Medical Privacy - National Standards
to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health. |
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HIPAA.ORG
Unsure how to handle HIPAA?
CMS has prepared a checklist to help you get started. Find it here.
THE LAW AND DHHS National Employer Identifier Number EIN Final Rule
in PDF EIN Proposed Rule in HTML, PDF, or Text. |
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HIPAA_40
All X12N Implementation Guides adopted
for use under HIPAA and their corresponding Addenda are free.
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ADA Topical Index: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) Start on this
page for ADA resources regarding HIPAA. ... The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996.
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CMS: Non-HIPAA compliant electronic forms paid slower
Starting July 1, the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services will still accept electronic Medicare
claims that do not meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act standards, but they will be treated as paper claims and paid
more slowly than HIPAA-compliant electronic claims, taking an additional
13 days. The modification to the CMS compliance plan only affects
covered entities submitting Medicare claims to a Medicare contractor.
The modification has an effective date of July 1, but CMS said it
will begin delaying payments for non-compliant claims submitted
July 6 and after. CMS encourages filers in need of additional help
to contact their Fiscal Intermediaries or carriers, the private
contractors that process and pay Medicare claims.
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