Health Information Compliance Alert
LAW FIRM TACKLES HIPAA
The law firm of Shaw Pittman introduced June 3 an online, searchable database to aid health plans remain in compliance with the privacy regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. According to the release, the Shaw Pittman Preemption Analysis examines state laws, regulations, opinions of attorneys general and relevant case law for each individual state to determine those instances where state law preempts the national HIPAA privacy standard. Cross-state comparisons are also researchable on the searchable extranet. The Health Insurance Association of America and the American Association of Health Plans joined with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in selecting the firm to develop the database. Alan Lipsitz, executive director of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Legal Department Cooperative, said the health groups hired Shaw Pittman to "help solve one of their most pressing problems HIPAA compliance as it relates to state regulations."
The analysis is available on a subscription basis through the three sponsoring organizations or through Shaw Pittman, directly. Demos are available at: www.shawpittman.com/extranet/hc/demohipaa.nsf.
Health Information Compliance Alert
- HIPAA Privacy:
PRIVACY REGS YOU CAN BANK ON
Special services rendered by banks on behalf of providers and hospitals could emerge as an [...] - HIPAA Privacy:
DON'T GIVE GRIEF RECEIVE IT
If a health care provider has already created and implemented a fraud and abuse compliance [...] - HIPAA Privacy:
MARKETERS ON CLOUD 9 WHILE PRIVACY ADVOCATES SOAK IN RAIN
Proposed changes to the HIPAA privacy rule have big implications for marketers' use of PHI: [...] - Litigation:
JUDGE NIXES HIPAA CHALLENGE
A federal district court judge June 17 dismissed a challenge to the Health Insurance Portability [...] - HIPAA Transactions:
HHS RELENTS ON J CODES
The Department of Health and Human Services' latest proposal on HIPAA transactions should has bring [...] - HIPAA Training:
DON'T GET REAR-ENDED BY YOUR FRONT DESK
When health care providers think of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy rule, [...] - HIPAA Privacy:
WHEN CHARTS GO HOME, HIPAA RULES FOLLOW
Picture this: A medical office receives an irate call from a patient's mother, who is [...] - HIPAA Compliance:
RURAL HOSPITALS TO DHHS: SHOW ME THE MONEY
Cash-strapped rural hospitals at wits end over funding their HIPAA compliance efforts can turn to [...] - HIPAA Privacy:
HIPAA PUTS RESEARCHERS UNDER MICROSCOPE
When medical researchers were forcefully wed to HIPAA compliance, the union presented a myriad of [...] - Privacy/Security Certification:
AHIMA, HIMSS OFFER NEW CERTIFICATIONS
The American Health Information Management Association and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society announced May [...] - HIPAA Compliance:
NCAL: HIPAA COMPLIANCE FOR HIRE
A new manual has been published that aims at making assisted living facilities' HIPAA compliance [...] - HIPAA Compliance:
LAW FIRM TACKLES HIPAA
The law firm of Shaw Pittman introduced June 3 an online, searchable database to aid [...]
