Health Information Compliance Alert
NCAL: HIPAA COMPLIANCE FOR HIRE
A new manual has been published that aims at making assisted living facilities' HIPAA compliance problems vanish. The National Center for Assisted Living said in a June 18 release that it has published a manual to aid facilities' compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's regulations on privacy issues. The manual aims to provide assisted living facilities with a "practical guide to swiftly achieve compliance" with HIPAA's privacy rule; it will address assisted living facilities' operational issues relative to its residents and privacy issues, NCAL said in the release. NCAL says facilities can modify the manual's "sample implementation guidelines" to achieve compliance with the privacy rule. The manual, which NCAL claims is user-friendly, is divided into 28 appendices on topics including Use and Disclosure of Health Information Policy, Consent, Authorizations, Complaints and Penalties.
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 [...]
