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
