Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Explore the Health Information Privacy page on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services website as assigned in the Topic 6 Readings, respond to the following prompt: What is considered "identifiable patient information?" The HIPAA privacy and security rules specify requirements for hospitals, clinics, and private practices under "Administrative Requirements." Do you think these entities are mostly in compliance with the rules? Provide reasons why an entity might not be. Identifiable…

the challenge arises? how did it come to be of importance in the health industry?) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed on August 21, 1996. Its primary goals were to make health care delivery more efficient and to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage, especially those who lost or were between jobs. Initially there were three main provisions of the Act: the portability provisions, the tax provisions, and the administrative…

against the public good (Pozgar, 2016, p. 240). Though not directly involved with patient care, a health services administrator should enhance the overall quality of life and well being of individuals under their organizations care. Following are legislations and acts passed to safeguard the rights of patients and set precedent, a standard, for all subsequent cases. Any healthcare organization…

Everyone is born with rights, one of those rights is privacy. Privacy can be defined as concealing personal information. In some cases, it is of concealing health information of patient and/or residents of medical facilities. HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protects our right to privacy. PHI to be exact, or protected health information. PHI is secured under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. HIPPA helps ensure the protection of documents that could be identifiable to the…

This includes shredding all paperwork that contains unnecessary confidential health information, checking the fax number before sending confidential information by fax, using closed door and privacy curtains when discussing health information with a client, and keeping medical records attended to at all times. Confidential health information that you see or hear yourself must be kept to yourself and look only at that medical information you need to do your particular job. If employees come to…

How do people use, misuse or abuse HIPAA, the federal regulations protecting patients’ confidential health information? For instance, an elderly woman who didn’t show up to her regular swim and wasn’t in her apartment, when questions directed toward hospital staffs about any information were denied due to HIPAA policies. Another situation was when a daughter tried to call a hospital to warn them about medication allergies concerning her mother because her memory was impaired. The hospital…

particularly private, as AMA has the sole copyright to the codes, so you have to “pay a license fee if you want to compare the Relative Value Unit (RVU) values to the CPT codes”. Everyone must have access to HCPCS codes as of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. CPT has three categories: 1. Standard CPT Codes, 2. CPT Codes specific for performance measurement, 3. CPT Codes that are specific for emerging technology and experimental. Example of CPT codes:…

therapy. Practioners may communicate information about client’s therapy and the fact that an individual is in therapy only after getting a signed written release of information. Under the provisions of the Health Care Information Act of 1992, a practioner is allowed legally to speak to another health care provider or a member of the client’s family without client’s prior permission, however, only in the event…

The intent of this national health insurance program was to provide health insurance to Americans over the age of 65 and to younger persons with certain disabilities. According to Wager, Lee and Glaser (2013), in 1972, another historical piece of federal legislation was passed that required hospitals “be reviewed and certified in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs” (p. 70-71). A minimum set of standards was developed by CMS, formerly the Health Care Financing…

the awareness and urgency of to the medical staff, is essential to protecting privacy. HIPPA Laws apply to any entity that uses and/or has access to patient health information. Failure to comply with HIPAA can result in civil and criminal penalties (42 USC § 1320d-5). In 1996, HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted into law (Erickson, Millar, 2005). This law has had a significant impact on the healthcare industry including the need for numerous…