Scope of HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What is HIPPA?
Signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law.
Who is Barack Obama?
Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1972
Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970
What is the federal statues that provide safeguards for information pertaining to drug and other substance abuse?
Only a CE can identify a person or organization as this.
What is a Business Associate?
Healthcare providers are not required to obtain the patient's signed consent to use or disclose personally identifiable information for this.
What are TPO purposes?
HIPPA Amended three pieces of federal legislation.
What is the Internal Revenue Code, The Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Public Health Service Act?
The date when ARRA was signed into law.
It regulates providers that receive funds from Medicare and Medicaid programs.
What is Conditions of Participation?
Analyze patient safety issues.
What is Patient Safety organizations?
Does not have an expiration date.
What is consent form?
Protects individuals and their dependents from losing their health insurance when changing jobs.
What is Title 1?
A statue within ARRA that provided more stringent rules for business associates and subcontractors that deal with medical information and its transmission.
What is HITECH?
The abbreviation for Health Information Management.
What is HIM?
Document that a CE initiates to organize a BA.
What is a Business Associate Agreement(BAA)?
Written permission for a specific disclosure.
What is authorization?
Contains revisions for the prevention of fraud, abuse and medical liability.
What is Title 2?
Was codified by ARRA.
What is the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology?
A healthcare provider who sends health information in electronic form, a healthcare clearinghouse that transmits billing transactions between healthcare provider and health plan, and a health plan that provides or pays the costs of medical care.
What is a Covered Entity?
A PHR
What is a personal health record?
Are not considered part of the health record.
What are psychotherapy notes?
Contains tax related provisions for the Internal Revenue code.
What is Title 3,4,and 5?
The abbreviation for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
What is ONC?
Responsible for their workforce, including volunteers, interns and trainees.
What is a covered entity?
In this document the BA agrees to comply with the CE's conditions to protect the health information.
What is the BAA?
Always requires authorization for the use and disclosure.
What are Psychotherapy notes?