Yes, it is not necessary. You only have to obtain written acknowledgment of an individual's receipt of your NPP one time (on the first service delivery after the compliance date).
After that, if you subsequently revise your NPP you only need to post the revised notice in your facility, and make it available to people on request. There is no need to track which version of the NPP they received, nor is there a requirement to obtain another acknowledgment if you issue a later revision of your NPP. I believe this has been clarified on the CMS web site thorugh their FAQ's, and in the December guidance issued by OCR. I'm sure I could cite you the exact source if you have trouble convincing your other committee members. Noel Chang -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Traci Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:26:30 -0500 Subject: NPP revisions > 164.520 [c][2][iv] Whenever the notice is revised, make the notice > available upon request on or after the effective date of the > revision and promptly comply with the requirements of paragraph > [c][2][iii] of this section, if applicable. > > I just want to run this by everyone, in our HIPAA committee meeting > today we have decided to provide a NPP and get a signed > acknowledgement of receipt with each admission to home care services, > even if the patient was previously receiving services from our > agency. The reasoning is, with the rapid turnover of our patients it > would be extremely difficult to track which "edition" of our NPP a > patient had received, and since our patients sometimes are re- > admitted to our services years down the road it would allow us to > make sure we had documentation that the NPP had been given. We may > put a section on our acknowledgement form for the patient to > check/sign if they are refusing a copy due to previous receipt. > > I think this should cover us pretty well... any cons to the plan? > > Traci Winter > Hospitals Home Health Care, Inc. > > --- > The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. > The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of > the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the > views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to > receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP > Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs > should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion > of specific vendor products and services. They also are not > intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or > unprofessional communication at any time. > > You are currently subscribed to wedi-privacy as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the > Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a > blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you > need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same > as the address subscribed to the list, please use the > Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org ------- End of Original Message ------- --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-privacy as: archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org
