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HIPAA and the HITECH Act
Your patient access staff members can never know enough about HIPAA.
I authored a white paper analyzing the new laws in the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health Act (HITECH Act) – or Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed February 17.
Visit our Revenue Cycle Institute to download the white paper, HITECH Act and HIPAA: Strengthen your HIPAA compliance and training programs; prepare for new laws under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
I’ve also written some columns about the subject for our daily online healthcare news Web site — www.healthleadersmedia.com:
Thanks!
Dom Nicastro
Senior managing editor
Patient Access Resource Center
Training tool: Q&A on HIPAA
See the answers to important compliance questions for patient access teams regarding HIPAA.
Q&A: Informing a teen’s parents
Q: A 19-year-old presents an insurance card listing him or her as a qualified dependent on a parent’s health plan. If the parent calls for information about why the child was at the healthcare facility, can we release any information other than verifying the patient’s presence?
A: Assuming the age of majority is 18 in your state, this patient is an adult. Although his or her parent’s plan provides coverage, the parent does not have the right to access his or her PHI without written authorization.
Editor’s note: Mary Brandt, president of Bellaire, TX-based Brandt & Associates, LLC, answered this question. This is not legal advice. Consult your attorney for legal matters.