HIPAA was created in 1996 in order for Covered Entities (Health plan, health care clearing houses and health care provider) to protect and secure a person’s private health information (PHI). Its main focus is to eradicate worker discrimination due pre-existing conditions. Nonetheless, HIPAA concentrated on the implementation of a distributed electronic system to improve administrative transactions among covered entities. However, early stages of HIPAA provisions left many gaps opened. As an example: HIPPA did not specify how information should be protected; what methods, rules or standard needed to be enforced.…
Why was this law enacted? HIPAA was enacted to establish regulations and criteria on how patient information should be used and how data should be protected and stored. This document also gives patients the right to say how they want their information used, and who the information can be released to. Written consent must be obtained from the patient in order to disseminate any information.…
The HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets Rule oversee how health care providers handle business via the internet. It founds the business-to-business communications and dictates a standard that everyone must follow. This also creates the codes and/or terminology to be used. Standardized transactions were implemented with one end goal in mind and that was to save money. If a practice management application printed the usual claim form, which was the HCFA 1500 and it is now the CMS 1500, the providers office would mail it to the insurance company.…
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.…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) passed in 1996 to help set a national standard to protect certain patient health information (Gartee, 2011). The major goal of HIPAA is to ensure a patient’s Health Information (PHI) is utilized by the correct individuals at the correct time to perform a certain job. In addition, HIPPA sets the standards by which PHI can be shared with covered entities and family; plus allowing the patient to receive notice on how their PHI will be utilized. In addition, HIPPA is a complete and comprehensive guide to protect the public’s health and well being while striking a balance that permits important uses of PHI to share information (“Summary” n.d.). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act includes three categories of security safeguards and how covered entities will communicate PHI.…
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This act regulates how, when, and where client information can and cannot be shared. Failure to abide by HIPAA guidelines can result in severe consequences Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs is used as a guiding principal in the health care field. The order of levels within the hierarchy are, psychologic, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. It is important to know what need the clients has in order to give specific care to meet that need.…
HIPAA-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was designed to protect a patient by specifying detailed instructions on how to handle the client’s information and keeping it private. Congress adopted the federal law with specifics on letting the client know how their privacy will be protected by clearly stating how it will be used and kept, the client must receive informed consent, and the process of transferring their records. So exactly what is the law supposed to do? Who does it protect and to what extent is this protection in place?…
Congress passed HIPAA in 1996 with the intent of setting standards to protect healthcare data and its exchange and regulations on privacy (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, 1996). The purpose of HIPAA act is to protect and enhance the rights of patients by providing them with access to their health information and controlling the inappropriate use or disclosure of that information (Newby, 2009). Another purpose of the act is to improve the…
HIPAA in the Nursing Field Privacy is a term that applies to all people, it is a right entitled to everyone. In this modern world with smart phones and social media, it can be a challenge to recognize the boundary lines of privacy when taking care of critically ill patients. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996 to define the rules and regulations concerning multiple topics, one of which is called the Privacy Rule (Mcgowan pg. 61). This rule established national standards to protect patients’ personal health information and medical records. Since that time there has been advancements in technology and now there are things like electronic health records, electronic Pyxis, and online databases…
The HIPAA Act which stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and acted in 1996. HIPAA laws created a new national standard in protecting people’s health information. Whenever some body visits nowadays the hospital has a little page that you sign letting them know that you acknowledge that the physician office has notify you about their compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws were put into place in protect people from things like identity thief, being denied health care, and or health insurance coverage.…
What is HIPAA (#1)? HIPAA stands for “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”, and it was passed by congress in 1996. The act was designed to reform healthcare in such a way that would provide protection to workers who changed or lost their jobs, ensure the confidentiality of patients medical information, and increase efficiency in the healthcare system by standardizing the processes of medical data storage and transmission (Bowers, Donna Par. 1). What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule (#2)…
HIPAA was originally enacted to protect patient information because of the growing use of information technology in healthcare. Some of HIPAA’s privacy rules went into effect in 2002, while security rules went into effect in 2003. The HITECH…
HIPAA is divided into two different titles, the first one is dealing with portability and, the second focuses on administrative simplification. (3) Portability allows people to safely take their health insurance with them from one job to another. (11) Administrative simplification is a legal article that sets requirements for patients safety the most important requirements are transaction and code sets, identifier, security, and privacy. HIPAA is the act to protect your personal…
HIPAA Security and Privacy: Cases and Scenarios Brittany Stewart Herzing University Dr. Gary J. Hanney Abstract HIPAA security and privacy is an important aspect of healthcare delivery. Government influences greatly how legal issues are addressed in healthcare, including non-governmental entities. This essay will explain how the HIPAA privacy rule should be applied appropriately with protected health information.…
Consequently, congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, which categorized healthcare fraud as a specific offense while making provisions for money laundering statutes. In addition, it allowed seizure of fraudulently acquired benefits and blacklisting of providers engaging in healthcare fraud (Salinger, 2005). A key objective of the HIPAA was to harmonize local, state and federal responses in combating healthcare fraud through punishment of guilty entities, deterrence of healthcare fraud and misconduct, protection of Medicare trust funds and patients and awareness creation among patients and service…