Overview: The final amendments to HIPAA resulting from the HITECH Act are now in effect and compliance was required by September 23, 2013. The amendments require changes in several areas of operation, ...

The first thing you should know about HIPAA is that ... it when signing the notice of privacy practices that the law mandates their health care providers have them sign. Plus, most people consider ...

This includes endeavors to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of the protected health ... To satisfy this requirement, please review the compliance notifications available below. These notices ...

This notice of privacy practices describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. please review it carefully. This Notice will tell ...

This “authorization” isn’t a standard doctor’s office notice detailing how they follow the health-privacy ... HIPAA also says that you can’t condition treatment on whether you sign ...

Medical practices that have not added new patient rights to their privacy notices, as required by the federal government, have until September 23 to become law-abiding. The formal name for the ...

A HIPAA privacy notice is made available at a doctor's office in New York, May 2, 2003. Greene is far from the first to wildly misinterpret HIPAA. Public relations departments and health care ...

Less than a week before the compliance deadline for the final omnibus rule issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office ...

Long-term care providers can now utilize three new models of Notice of Privacy Practices documents to maintain Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

This includes endeavors to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of the protected health ... To satisfy this requirement, please review the compliance notifications available below. These notices ...