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HIPAA Compliance Handbook

Easy-to-understand explanations of the legal and regulatory aspects of HIPAA.

The HIPAA Compliance Handbook provides a discussion of the Administrative Simplification regulations that implement provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The Handbook describes the transaction, privacy and security regulations in detail and addresses issues common to all three, as well as issues unique to each. In addition, it addresses issues specific to employer-sponsored group health plans. A special feature of the Handbook is the "State by State Guide to Medical Privacy Statutes."

The Handbook includes HIPAA-related policies and procedures, a glossary of HIPAA-related terms, and checklists for becoming compliant and staying compliant with HIPAA security standards, making it an ideal reference for HIPAA coordinators, project managers, privacy officers, compliance professionals, health care record managers and anyone else responsible for implementing the HIPAA Administrative Simplification rules.

The Handbook contains a methodology for performing a HIPAA compliance assessment— identifying the gaps, evaluating risks, implementing changes and monitoring results. It builds in-house understanding and expertise more quickly by shortening the HIPAA learning curve. It allows you to progress at your own pace.

The 2007 edition examines:

• The final HIPAA Enforcement Rule, which governs the HIPAA privacy, security and electronic transaction standards
• Case law updates, including details of the Ramirez case (the second case in which criminal charges were filed under the Privacy Rule)
• The impact of the new Medicare Enrollment Regulations on providers obtaining National Provider Identifiers

Part of the Health Law & Compliance Integrated Library, the HIPAA Compliance Handbook links to the primary source material in the CCH Health Care Compliance Reporter. The Library combines the latest information regarding Health Law from CCH and Aspen Publishers.