Managing HIPAA Compliance, Scott Withrow

Other books by Scott Withrow:

Managing HIPAA Compliance: Standards for Electronic Transmission, Privacy, and Security of Health Information

Scott C. Withrow, J.D.

Softbound 209 pp, 2001
ISBN 1-56793-172-3
Order code: WWW1-1142
Price: $81.00

This book will lead you through HIPAA requirements and help you develop an economical compliance program. It breaks HIPAA into three major parts: electronic transactions and code sets, privacy, and security. Each section explains its topic concisely, offers practical advice for dealing with HIPAA's thorny issues, and includes a list of action items that will guide you in implementing your HIPAA compliance program.

This book contains many sample forms and procedure documents that can be adapted for your organization, including:

Business associate agreement
Consent and authorization forms
Notice of privacy practices
Administrative security procedures
Physical security safeguards

"Scott Withrow's book is a welcome resource for people who struggle with the HIPAA law's complexity on a daily basis. It should be on the bookshelf of everyone who is involved in HIPAA implementation."

--J. Stuart Showalter, J.D.
Director of Compliance
Orlando Regional Healthcare System

Click here to access the book's appendices. (Now available---the latest information on Final Privacy Regulations, Proposed Security Regulations, and Final Electronic Transactions Regulations. To aid your compliance efforts, the author has added three appendices on the most recent HIPAA regulations.)

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About the Author:

Scott C. Withrow is a founding partner of Withrow, McQuade & Olsen, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia. He has practiced healthcare and corporate law for 17 years for a variety of clients including hospitals, home health agencies, physicians and physician group practices, physician hospital organizations, physician practice management companies, consulting firms and cost containment companies. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Health Law Section and the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys, and serves on the Editorial Board of Leader Publications' Health Care Fraud & Abuse Newsletter. Mr. Withrow wrote the book Managing Healthcare Compliance (Health Administration Press, 1999), which Doody's Rating Service designated as on of the top 250 healthcare books of the year.

Contents

Part One: Administrative Simplification Provisions of HIPAA

1. Introduction
2. HIPAA Overview

Part Two: Electronic Transactions and Code Sets

3. Standards for Electronic Transactions and Code Sets
4. Standards for Health Care Claims
5. Other Covered Transactions

Part Three: Privacy

6. Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
7. Privacy Compliance Procedures
8. Patient Privacy Rights

Part Four: Security

9. Physical Safeguards and Technical Security Mechanisms
10. Implementing a HIPAA Compliance Program

Appendix A Sample 837-Institutional Health Care Claim in XML

Appendix B Sample DTD for 837-Institutional Health Care Claim

Appendix C Sample UB-92/HCFA 1450 Bill in XML

Appendix D Sample DTD for UB-92/HCFA 1450 Bill

Appendix E Additional Data Elements Required by 837-Institutional

Appendix F Final Electronic Transaction Regulations

Appendix G Final Privacy Regulations

Appendix H Proposed Security Regulations Index