HIPAA Compliance
Now that the HIPAA compliance deadline has passed, health care providers have been struggling to comply with the unique challenges this regulation brings. Forms and privacy notifications have become the norm in the health care industry. But is your practice covering all of its bases and ensuring that your patients' information is protected? Do you know how to properly handle requests for medical records? Are you aware of the penalties that could result if reasonable safeguards are not taken? Do you know how to deal with sensitive records regarding information on minors, AIDS, and mental health? Are your electronic billing practices secured?

Attend this one-day seminar and receive the answers to all these questions and more. Attendees will discuss the three major components to HIPAA compliance: privacy, security, and electronic transactions. You will be given a step-by-step guide to guarantee that your practice or facility is fully secure. Information pertaining to writing the required policies, procedure,s and consents will be discussed, as well as samples of all required forms. Attendees will leave this seminar armed with all the information needed to comply with the HIPAA regulations.

Course Content

OVERVIEW OF HIPAA

         Determining who must comply

         Security regulations

         Privacy regulations

         Penalties

         What to do when state and federal laws contradict

HIPAA COMPLIANCE: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

         Treatment

         Payment

         Conducting a risk analysis

         Developing the HIPAA team

            -  selecting the privacy officer

            -  selecting the security officer

         Record retention and release rules

         Drafting policies, procedures, and consent forms

         Simplifying the process

         How long are you required to retain records?

         Mandatory medical records—how your practice could be affected

PRIVACY RULE

         Medical record inspection and copying policy

         Amendment and correction policy

         Log of disclosures policy

         Privacy notice policy

         Reasonable restrictions of health information policy

         Reasonable alternate communication policy

         Training and sanction system for employees

SECURITY RULE

         Risk analysis and risk management

         Determining who should have access to patient records

         Reasonable safeguards to protect health information program

         Protection from malicious software

         Emergency plans

         Computer access controls and passwords

         Administrative safeguards

         Physical safeguards

         Technical safeguards

ELECTRONIC RECORDS

         HIPAA transaction and code sets rule

         Payment

         Reimbursement

         Most common problems

         Medicare/Medicaid fraud implications

BLUEPRINT FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PLAN: FROM PAPER TO ELECTRONIC

         How to select electronic medical record vendors for hardware and software purchase

DEALING WITH SPECIALIZED ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS

         E-scripts

         E-test orders

         E-test results

         E-doctor's notes

SPECIALIZED RECORDS RULES

         Cancer

         AIDS

         Mental health

         Drug and alcohol addiction

         Genetic testing

         Abortion

         Minors

         Elders

OTHER CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS

         Court records

         Worker's compensation

         Subpoenas

         Court orders

         Search warrants

         Qualified protective orders

         Guardianships

         Evidence admissibility

         Verdicts

HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES AND DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY

STATISTICS AND CASE STUDY OF HIPAA CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

STATISTICS AND CASE STUDY OF HIPAA CIVIL COMPLAINTS AND FINES