Doug,
In accordance with the Office of Civil Rights Guidance issue in December 2002, only
covered health care provider that have a direct treatment relationship with
individuals are required to make a good faith effort to obtain the individual's
acknowledgment of receipt of the notice - 45CFR
42 U.S.C. Section 1320d-5 (General Penalty for Failure to comply with
Requirements and Standards)
The pre-codified version is on HHS' website at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm
Leah Hole-Curry, JD
FOX Systems, Inc.
602.708.1045
Information transmitted is confidential and may be
Title: Message
That is the best piece of HIPAA info I have
seen in months. Thanks for the grin.
Bruce
-Original Message-From: McKinlay, Mike
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 29,
2003 12:48 PMTo: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup
ListSubject: RE: Any HIPAA Humor
You're correct, Doug. Here's an excerpt from the recent guidance on the
Privacy Regs:
[begin quote]
Q: Are health plans required to make a good faith effort to obtain from
their enrollees a written acknowledgment of receipt of the notice?
A: No. Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, only covered health
Yes, but is it possible for a patient to authorize disclosures of his PHI to a spouse
for example? It seems that an authorization would need to be so specific that it would
require a signed authorization every time a paricular situation/condition came up.
It should be NONE to anyone other than
We are
working on having an authorization that will cover these "gray areas". It
will follow the guidelines with HIPAA and allow us to share information with
anyone the patient wishes to be involved in their care. It will only be
valid for a year, and the patient will be able to revoke it
I think there was an earlier discussion on archiving emails.
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Don't forget Alan Goldberg's
HIPAA-ginity!
HIPAA-ginity - that exemption
from HIPAA regulations that vanishes when a healthcare provider succumbs to the
temptation of electronic billing.
-Original Message-From: Ron Moore
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 30,
Section 1176 of the HIPAA statute addresses penalties.
Section 1176 of the Act establishes
civil monetary penalties for violation of
the provisions in part C of title XI of the
Act, subject to several limitations.
Penalties may not be more than $100
per person per violation of a provision,
and
