HIPAA Plain and Simple: A Compliance Guide for Health Care Professionals

Softcover, 300 pages
ISBN 1603592059
978-1603592055 AMA Press
October 2010
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A valuable, must-read resource for frontline patient interaction.

Ensure your practice is compliant with the updated HIPAA privacy and security regulations that accompany ARRA and the Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health Act (HITECH) that started to go into effect February 2010. Stepped up enforcement includes new breach notification laws with monetary penalties if not enforced, stricter accountability for business associates, and use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI).

HIPAA Plain & Simple eases your administrative burden by explaining the increased importance the federal government is placing on PHI so that you can conduct your own risk assessment and ensure your physician office staff is appropriately trained.

Recommended by the AMA, this straightforward guide simplifies the complex HIPAA regulations for those in the medical office who have direct patient contact or are responsible for safeguarding patient information.

Achieve true administrative simplification
Make your staff knowledgeable regarding issues related to claims processing, protecting health information and patient interaction

Each chapter contains "what to do" and "how to do it" directions to help every employee - from nurses and physician assistants to receptionists and coding/billing experts - learn what it means to be HIPAA compliant and how to achieve compliance. This resource includes:

Descriptions and analyses of HIPAA components, including the final security rule
Charts, graphs and timelines
HIPAA terms explained
Sample forms
Sample agreements
At-a-glance lists
Easy to understand procedures
Scenarios for discussion
A month-by-month HIPAA training program
An internal and external HIPAA communications plan

Updated from the bestselling 2003 first edition, this invaluable resource includes:

The popular "What to Do" and "How to Do It" section
Sample business associate agreements
Graphics and charts; timelines, checklists and forms
Health IT company profiles and 12-month HIPAA training ideas
Crisis communication management guidelines
A new foreword by Louis W. Sullivan, MD, president emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine, former secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
An additional foreword by David Brailer, MD, the nation's first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

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