HIPAA Compliance

Presented by Capture Billing and Consulting, Inc. Katie Jennings, RN and Michelle Ivanchukov, CPC, CCS-P www.CaptureBilling.com 703.327.1800

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HIPAA Legislative Act HIPAA Public Law 104-191 is composed of the following: https://www.highmark.com/hmk2/about/hipaa/hipaaMain.shtml

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification These rules are enforced by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the HHS

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Covered Entities

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HIPAA Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule)

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Protected Health Information (PHI)

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Use and Disclosure Limitations

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Permitted Use and Disclosure

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Notice of Policy Practices Covered Entities must provide a notice of its Privacy Practices to include:

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Requirements

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) De-identification

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Violations occurring on or after 2/18/2009 :
Penalty Amount $100 to $50,000 or more per violation
Calendar Year Cap of $1,500,000
Penalties may not be imposed in certain circumstances
Failure to comply was not due to willful neglect and was corrected during a 30-day period after entity knew or should have known failure to comply occurred
Department of Justice has imposed a criminal penalty for failure to comply
Enforcement and Compliance

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Criminal Prosecution

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HHS Case Examples

02/25/12 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HIPAA Violations Found on the web…
Nurses Fired Over Cell Phone Photos Of Patient
Case Referred To FBI For Possible HIPAA Violations
Team 4 Uncovers HIPAA Records Violations
Cignet fined $4M for HIPAA violation
Cignet Health of Prince George’s County has been fined a total of $4.3 million for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights alleges Cignet violated 41 patients’ rights in 2008 and 2009 by not providing them access to their medical records in a reasonable amount of time.
Two to plead guilty to fraud, HIPAA violations UCLA Medical Center agrees to settle HIPAA violation charges for $865K Local psychiatrist faces federal charges in HIPAA case

Department of Health and Human Services:
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html
Department of Medical Assistance Services:
h ttp://www.dmas.virginia.gov/hpa-hipaa_faqs.htm
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield:
https://www.highmark.com/hmk2/about/hipaa/hipaaMain.shtml
Department of Labor:
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_hipaa.html
02/25/12 References

http://www.capturebilling.com	1168
http://feeds.feedburner.com	8
http://site_829056.webpuzzletest.com	7
http://www.google.com	3
http://www.linkedin.com	3

HIPAA Compliance

by Manny Oliverez

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

5 Embeds 1,189

Statistics