HIPAA Resource Center
Designed to help you understand and comply with the regulations set forth by HIPAA, our HIPAA Resource Center includes web based resources, tools, advice, news and information to assist you with your HIPAA compliance efforts.
What Are the Rules?
| Privacy | Security |
| Transactions & Code Sets | NPI |
HIPAA NPI
Understand how to prepare for HIPAA NPI.
HIPAA Security Guide
Visit our HIPAA Security Guide and understand what the HIPAA Security Rules entail and how to comply.
HIPAA Privacy Guide
HIPAA Resources
- Access our comprehensive directory of on-line HIPAA resources.
- CMS has posted an online form for the public to file complaints against healthcare entities regarding possible violations of the HIPAA regulations for transactions and code sets.
- CMS's toll free number to call with HIPAA questions: 866-282-0659 or askHIPAA@cms.hhs.gov
- For HIPAA privacy questions, contact the Office for Civil Rights: 866-627-7748
- Implementing The Minimal Necessary Standards - what is "reasonably necessary" , determining and managing minimum necessary uses, disclosures, and requests in non-automated and automated environments. OHIC
- Business Associate Agreement - Obtaining a written agreement with all business associates who have access to PHI is required.
- How to identify your practice's business associates
- Use and Disclosure for 'Treatment'
- What the Difference Is Between Proposed & Final Rule
HIPAA Tips
Staff members can best handle patient questions related to HIPAA regulations if they have basic scripts to guide their responses. AHIMA
If you have a practice web site, post your Authorization form right on your site. If patients phone in to request a release of records, to expedite processing you can suggest they log on to your site to download your authorization form.
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