Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

There are many challenges that affect the direction of health care today. Proposed health care reform and legislation, accreditation, quality of healthcare, and organizational compliance, economics, including third party payers, future funding, rising costs, the Medicare and Medicaid programs, access to health care including the uninsured and those in poverty and the elderly, and maintaining a skilled workforce have created many obstacles for providers (Ashford, 2016). Healthcare reform and…

At my current organization the manager confirms that each employee completes his or her annual computer training modules. These modules include information regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and policies regarding identifying 2 patient identifiers. This policy states all healthcare personnel should verify two patient identifiers before proceeding with any patient to help protect their identity. Identifiers…

When developing a security policy framework for XYZ Health Care Organization it’s important to understand guidelines needed to establish an effective policy. Such guidelines like Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and The Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) must be included and followed to the letter. This will eliminate nearly all guesswork and fill in the blanks where HIPAA and SOX do not. Finally, while following these set ground rules it is also important to understand that…

(ICD-10) is the national coding standard in the United States, as mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2009. The International Classification of Diseases is an alpha-numeric coding system to describe patient’s conditions, symptoms and diagnosis for payers, providers and researchers; essentially providing a universal language for medical necessity and statistical analysis. The World Health Organization creates the system and governments around the world adopt it. The…

Health Care Cost Since 2014, health care spending have increased from 5.3 percent, $3.0 trillion, or $9,523 per person (CMS, 2014) to 5.5 percent in 2015, $3.1 trillion, or $9,695 per person (Luhby, 2015). The consistent increase on health care spending is expected to rise through the year 2024. In fact, between 2014 and 2024, health care spending is expected to increase to 5.8 percent, which is the highest percent of health spending in three decades (Luhby, 2015). By 2014, more than 19.1…

Clients have a right to privacy. As indicated by the NASW Code of Ethics, "Social workers should regard client s' entitlement to privacy (Reamer, 2016). Social workers should not request private data from clients unless it is essential for giving services or conducting social work assessment or research. Confidentiality applied when there is private information shared between client and social worker (Reamer, 2016). In clinical work particularly, social workers have deep-seated profound regard…

It is the goal of this department to promulgate transparency and accountability through effective and efficient management of department personnel and its policies and procedures. Moreover, in the wake of recent controversial shootings, the department and its personnel are under the public’s polemic. It is in these challenging times that we, as an organization must stand for what is right and just. It is incumbent upon the leaders of this department to set the example and stand for what we…

this task. It is also important to mention that the information regarding a patient’s health status should only be shared with third parties with the strict consideration of the patient. Moreover, there are regulations and laws aimed to avoid the disclosure of this type of information such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which ensures the protection and privacy of the personal health information of the client (Friberg & Creasia, 2016). Therefore, it wouldn’t…

United States citizens have had conflict in the past of their medical records being taken and identity theft occurring. In the year of 1996, the American government passed a public law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This act was put into place to protect citizens health information, while leaving justification to law enforcement and government officials having access if need be. Citizens in this country fear that their medical being available to the…

expose others to HIV. In 1990, the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, which provides states with funds for AIDS treatment and care, required every state to certify that its criminal laws were adequate to prosecute any HIV-infected individual who knowingly exposed another person to…