HIPAA And How It Will Affect Your Office
It may even be the Doctor themself.Section 6: Release of Patient Information/ConsentYou need to have the patient's written consent in order to release any of their records/information.(Exception: If request is due to immediate/urgent care of patient.)You should review your current consent and authorization forms to make sure they are HIPAA compliant. HIPAA requires you to obtain consent for the use and disclosure of information from each of your patients. You may refuse to treat patients who will not sign the consent form.
Section 7: Unique Identifiers: No implementation date set yetHIPAA will mandate the use of unique identifiers. More to come on this component. Most likely you will have one national provider number, instead of a different provider number for each insurance company.Section 8: Policies and Procedures Required by HIPAA1. Identify people on your staff who require access to protected health information.2. Prevent access to protected health information by unauthorized persons.3. Ensure that the "minimum necessary" amount of information is released for routine disclosures (only release information pertaining to what is requested, not the patient's entire file.)4. Verify the identity of the requestor of information.5. Provide patients access to their records, the opportunity to request corrections, and access to and accounting of disclosures.6. Every office must have written policies regarding privacy practices.SummaryEvaluate your physical office for potential privacy and security risks. One of the best things that you can do to become "ready" for HIPAA is to walk through (better yet - have someone else walk through) your office as if you are a patient. Look around at EVERYTHING. What do you see? Do you see any personal patient information, charts in full view? Start right from the front door, and go through every room in your office, especially the rooms that patients have access to. Then continue to do periodic checks to ensure ongoing compliance.Make sure that you have written policies regarding any privacy practices, such as removing charts from the office, faxing patient information, reviewing any complaints from patients, etc. Also, make sure you designate a "privacy officer."Make sure all staff members are trained regarding HIPAA policies. Remember to train any/all new employees regarding HIPAA policies. You should also review your current HIPAA policies regularly.
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