Title: RE: More Business Associate
Craig,
The way I understand this (correct me if I'm wrong guys), if you have a contract in place by October 2002, you have a 1 year extension for the BAA. But the Covered Entity is still responsible for the BA abiding by the BA requirements, even though you
Anybody willing to share one with me? I'm a billing company and looking at the
language we should put into our agreements with subcontractors/agents. We have an
agreement with them, but now that I have heard about others referring to this
document, 'second tier' BAA, I'd be interested in
Psychotherapy
notes aredefined very specifically in the regulations includingthat
the records "are separated from the rest of the individual's medical
record."
Does the
definition imply that a mental health provider who does not keep the
recordsseparate -- not haveHIPAA psychotherapy
I work in a small law firm. A couple of our clients asked us to sign
business associate agreements. These business associate agreements require
the law firm to adopt HIPAA specific policies and procedures. Are there any
business associates (law firms specifically) that are doing this?
On an
Jason-
I believe it depends on how your are being utilized. It would seem that as
legal counsel you may be exposed to PHI when they are asking you to defend
them in any litigation brought by a patient or if they are working against
an insurance company for non-payment etc. The agreement should
On your unrelated matter, I, too, don't see where there is a business
associate relationship between a dental insurer and the law firm, or even
between the dental insurer and the law firm's group health plan.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the
agency
If your law firm provides any services to any entity in healthcare, I
strongly suggest you start getting familiar with HIPAA...in a hurry. Legal
services is one of the types of messages specifically mentioned in the
section of the regulation addressing business associates. Whether a law firm
