HIPAA
COMPLIANCE
WHAT IS HIPAA?
HIPAA was an Act of Congress (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) In HIPAA,
Portability means being able to keep your heath insurance, like
through COBRA, for instance. That is important to people, but that's
certainly not what the HIPAA uproar is all about.
The HIPAA uproar is about all about accountability. Accountability
means that the Federal Government is now regulating ALL U.S. health
care providers, doctorÕs offices, etc. for complete privacy and
security of ALL information regarding their patients. Penalties
for HIPAA violations include fines starting at $100 each, and ranging
all the way up to $250,000 and ten years in prison!
WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
Did you know that the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily "accidentally"
revealed confidential contact information of patients who had been
prescribed Prozac? How about the fact that tennis great Arthur Ashes'
HIV status was leaked to a tabloid, forcing him to address it publicly?
These and countless other violations of privacy are exactly what
HIPAA is intended to combat.
Protected Health Information, (PHI) has been used by employers,
politicians, marketers, insurance companies, and endless others
to discriminate, punish, hire, fire, market and even blackmail you.
This privileged information must be protected by somebody. That
somebody is YOU, the health care professional. Why? Because an Act
of Congress says so, that's why.
If you are a licensed medical provider of any kind, no matter
how small your office is, you are, (or will soon be declared to
be), a "covered entity" by the HIPAA regulations. HIPAA is here
to stay, and unless you're considering a career change, you going
to have to take it seriously.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?
If you don't already have HIPAA compliance information, get it.
There are printed materials, seminars, software packages of all
kinds to help you reach compliance regulations. Also, see our tools
on getting HIPAA compliant.
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