1. Describe the term HIPAA. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which is simply known as HIPPA was put into play in 1996 for health care fields and facilities. This act allows patients personal healthcare information to be protected from being used or shared with anyone unless the patient writes a hand consent saying otherwise. Each patient’s healthcare information is kept in medical records, billing records, and health insurance computer systems.…
HIPAA is short for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Congress passed the HIPAA in 1996 in order to protect the portability of insurance coverage as employees moved from job to job, increase accountability and decrease fraud and abuse in health care; and improve the efficiency of the health care payment process, while at the same time protecting a patient’s…
Moodey saw John last week for his annual physical. Dr. Moodey sent John for some lab work as he was concerned that John may have developed diabetes mellitus. John asked the Medical Assistant, Sally, to contact him on his cell phone to discuss the results of the lab tests. When the results came in, Sally called John’s home phone and left a message for him to contact the office. Which of the Patients’ Bill of Rights afforded under Title II of HIPAA did Sally violate?…
Obamacare/ACA is a new healthcare system plan that is aimed at fundamentally restructuring the delivery of healthcare in the US by regulating health insurance coverage. The Affordable Care Act broadens and strengthens the health insurance benefits available to consumers by requiring insurers to provide coverage of a minimum set of medical services known as essential health benefits (Giovannelli et al., 2014). Under the plan, the law obligates insurers in the individual and small-group markets to cover the categories of essential medical services including hospitalization, prescription drugs, maternity and newborn care to ensure that Americans are covered by a common set of robust insurance benefits comparable to employer-based insurance coverage.…
This details what Ms. Jones can expect from counseling and the confidentiality involved in the process. Ms. Jones was informed that while every effort will be made to keep the information she shares confidential, there are circumstances that would require me to breach…
A professional counselor’s actions are viewed as high standards, therefore the ACACE are guideline set in place to ensure counselors know how to conduct themselves correctly as to avoid undesirable predicaments. A client is not trying to establish an improper relationship when seeking help for behavior, and emotional problems from a professional counselor, but the clientele is trying to improve his/her psychological condition. The ACACE comprises, but not limited to areas of counseling relationships, professional responsibility, confidentiality and privacy, and resolving ethical issues…
Health Insurance Probability Act otherwise known as HIPAA was set in place in 1996 to make sure patient medical information is protected and safe. In today's world keeping medical information protected is extremely important especially that technology is ruling the world and people know how to access people personal information by hacking computer systems. Working in the human service or health field HIPAA and PHI should be taken seriously because working with clients we have to make sure that we protect their information no matter what. According to hhs.gov a major goal of the Privacy Rule is to assure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality…
The most visible challenges associated with the ACA is the expansion of Medicaid under the patient protection .The population having access to affordable health care and insurance has been an issue in the United States for an extensive period of time. National and State health care policies have been implemented, such as Medicaid for the poor and Medicare for senior citizens. However, until ACA, there has been no extensive national health insurance public policy to cover adults who do not fall into these two categories. This means those who make too much to receive Medicaid and those who are too young to receive Medicare are left to make the decision of whether or not to purchase health insurance for themselves and their families.…
Part A- Ethical Dilemmas The client asked his counselor if he would not report that his past boyfriend raped him. He does not want the information to reach his friends in NA due to them discovering that he was using meth again. This puts the counselor in an ethical dilemma of confidentiality.…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a set of regulations that helps patients confidentially store their health insurance information and allows them to transfer that information from one facility to another. HIPAA was originally known as The Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill that originated in 1996. This set of laws was made because healthcare facilities were starting to move patient’s medical records into computerized files. HIPAA also makes it to where any and all patient information cannot be shared by anyone unless that information is harmful to themselves or others.…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). HIPPA Established in August, 1996 to Public Law 104-191. HIPPA is Federal legislation developed for national standards to protect the privacy and security of working individuals and their families’ medical records and other personal health information. HIPPA helps working individuals to maintain their health insurance as well as help the healthcare corporations to regulate the managerial expenses. It is important as individuals to understand tour rights under HIPPA.…
The advancement of technology has change to services supervisors and supervisees provide within an agency. Since the advancement of technology, supervisors provide supervisees performances and training through technology (Abbass & Frederickson, 2014). The advancement of videoconference software has allowed supervisors to provide video- recorded training for not only local but international pool of supervisees (Abbass & Frederickson, 2014). Through videoconference, supervisees can present cases, participate in role play, and conduct skill building exercises; the supervisor can review the video and provide feedback to the supervisees (Abbass & Frederickson, 2014).…
A comparative analysis between Ontario’s Ethical Guidelines for Ontario School Counsellors and the United States Ethical Standards for School Counselors and the need for an Ethical Guideline specific to Northern schools in remote First Nations communities The Ontario School Councilors’ Association (OSCA) and the American School Counselors Association (ASCA) are both professional organizations geared towards supporting teacher-counsellors and students in terms of Guidance and Career Education. Published in 2014 the Ethical Guidelines for Ontario School Counsellors was created in hopes to clarify Ontario school counsellors’ understanding of their position in terms of the profession’s ethical principles and the law. It is in fact stated that…
Both understand confidentiality and trust are the Foundation to treatment and protection for the clients. Members must keep all records secure and in compliance with HIPAA and allowing only authorized Personnel having access to them. Written Consent must be given in order to release confidential information and documentation unless if an emergency exists, then verbal consent will be enough to release information. In both codes of ethics, the provider of services is required to contact the authorities when there is a clear and imminent danger to the client or two other persons. Only pertinent information is given to emergency or medical personnel directly involved in reducing the danger or threat.…
Before releasing any information the professionals have to make sure they have the patient’s permission. I feel this article’s discrepancy of privacy is…